{"id":55575,"date":"2015-09-03T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55575"},"modified":"2015-08-08T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T16:05:43","slug":"mocafilms-9-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55575","title":{"rendered":"MOCAFilms: 9-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 03  6:30PM to 8:30PM<br \/>\nMuseum of Chinese in America<br \/>\n215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-55576\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?attachment_id=55576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the 71st Annual North American Chinese Invitational 9-Man Volleyball Tournament in New York City, join MOCA for a screening of 9-Man. an independent feature documentary about an isolated and exceptionally athletic Chinese American sport that&#8217;s much more than a pastime.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 1930s, young men have played this gritty, streetball game competitively in the alleys and parking lots of Chinatown. Today, some 80 years later, nine-man is a lasting connection to Chinatown for a community of men who know a different, more integrated America, and it&#8217;s a game that has grown exponentially in athleticism. Nine-man punctuates each summer with a vibrant, aggressive, exhausting bragging rights tournament that unites thousands of Chinese Americans and maintains traditional rules and customs.<\/p>\n<p>To RSVP visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocanyc.org\/visit\/events\/mocafilms_9man\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mocanyc.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 03 6:30PM to 8:30PM Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013<\/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-55575","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\/55575","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=55575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55578,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55575\/revisions\/55578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}