{"id":290,"date":"2008-02-11T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/11\/students-ring-in-chinese-new-year\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:49:57","slug":"students-ring-in-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/students-ring-in-chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Students ring in Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bearspace.baylor.edu\/Group_BaylorProud\/www\/galleries\/chinesenewyear08\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/chinesenewyear08-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese New Year\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Last Thursday, East met West in the heart of Baylor&#8217;s campus as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/student_activities\/campus_programs\/index.php?id=51582\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Student Association<\/a> and Campus Programs hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/lariat\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=49031\" target=\"_blank\">a Chinese New Year celebration<\/a> in Burleson Quadrangle.<\/p>\n<p>A family craft tent, free food and traditional games welcomed visitors. A martial arts group from Dallas demonstrated kung fu and tai chi, while other groups performed traditional Chinese New Year traditions like the lion dance and the dragon dance. <a href=\"http:\/\/bearspace.baylor.edu\/Group_BaylorProud\/www\/galleries\/chinesenewyear08\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a photo gallery<\/a> from the event.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see Baylor students getting a taste of other cultures, and it somehow seems particularly fitting for it all to happen in the oldest part of campus.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, student celebrations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, East met West in the heart of Baylor&#8217;s campus as the Asian Student Association and Campus Programs hosted a Chinese New Year celebration in Burleson Quadrangle. A family craft tent, free food and traditional games welcomed visitors. A martial arts group from Dallas demonstrated kung fu and tai chi, while other groups performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-galleries","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}