{"id":63062,"date":"2016-04-17T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63062"},"modified":"2016-04-17T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T14:15:34","slug":"luncheon-with-joshua-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63062","title":{"rendered":"Luncheon with Joshua Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, April 17 12pm to 03pm<br \/>\nMulan Restaurant, Mudan Room<br \/>\n136-17 (at 39 Avenue), Flushing (Queens Crossing), NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/joshua-wong.png\" rel=\"lightbox[63062]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/joshua-wong.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Wong is a student activist from Hong Kong. At the age of 14, Joshua founded the group Scholarism in May 2011 to draw attention to the addition of \u201cnational education\u201d classes to the local curriculum, which was widely seen as attempts to \u201cbrainwash\u201d the next generation of Hong Kong students. Joshua successfully led the campaign to halt the government\u2019s plans, which at one point mobilized over 120,000 supporters in September 2012 to surround the Central Government Headquarters. After this campaign, Joshua and Scholarism remained active in various social causes in Hong Kong, most notably in the campaign for universal suffrage and the inclusion of \u201ccivic nomination\u201d for the Chief Executive election of 2017. This culminated in the Umbrella Movement in September 2015 that lasted for 79 days, which was led in part by Joshua, who pushed for peaceful, non-violent civil resistance. Joshua is currently on trial for his role in instigating the occupation, as he continues to fight for democracy in Hong Kong. Joshua is currently 19 years old. Joshua has been widely recognized for his efforts. In 2014, Joshua has been named as one of Foreign Policy\u2019s 100 Leading Global Figures, The Time\u2019s Young Person of the Year, and Time Magazine\u2019s 25 Most Influential Teens. Joshua was also named by Fortune as one of the World\u2019s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/luncheon-with-mr-joshua-wong-tickets-22665777952\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, April 17 12pm to 03pm Mulan Restaurant, Mudan Room 136-17 (at 39 Avenue), Flushing (Queens Crossing), NY<\/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-63062","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\/63062","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=63062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63065,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63062\/revisions\/63065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}