{"id":50829,"date":"2015-02-19T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50829"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:35:46","slug":"16th-new-year-firecracker-ceremony-cultural-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50829","title":{"rendered":"16TH NEW YEAR FIRECRACKER CEREMONY &amp; CULTURAL FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/19\/2015 11am<br \/>\nSara D. Roosevelt Park<br \/>\nGrand Street between Chrystie Street and Forsyth Street<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cny-goat.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[50829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cny-goat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn addition to setting off rockets and firecrackers, there are lion dances, drumming and dancing. Many community organizations have booths at the festival, some offering giveaways\/contests and some selling traditional Chinese New Year items. After the Firecracker Ceremony, there is a parade through the streets of Chinatown that begins at Sarah D. Roosevelt Park.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/betterchinatown.com\/upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/betterchinatown.com\/upcoming-events\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/19\/2015 11am Sara D. Roosevelt Park Grand Street between Chrystie Street and Forsyth Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50937,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829\/revisions\/50937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}