{"id":9189,"date":"2011-02-01T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2011-02-01T00:57:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:57:01","slug":"asian-americans-for-hope-passport-to-asia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=9189","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year&#8217;s Day Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana} span.s1 {font: 13.0px 'Times New Roman'} -->Date: Thursday, February 3 \u00b7 11:00am &#8211; 3:30pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Address: Roosevelt Park &#8211; Between Grand Street and Hester Street, NYC<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Event:<\/strong> 11:30AM &#8211; 4:00PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parade:<\/strong> 1:00PM &#8211; 2:30PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Roosevelt Park &#8211; Between Grand  Street and Hester Street, NYC<\/p>\n<p>In 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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fire.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9189]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9205\" title=\"fire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thursday, February 3 \u00b7 11:00am &#8211; 3:30pm Address: Roosevelt Park &#8211; Between Grand Street and Hester Street, NYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[235,4680,810,4681],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-firecracker-ceremony-and-cultural-festival","tag-fireworks","tag-lion-dances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9212,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}