{"id":1919,"date":"2014-01-24T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:19:35","slug":"missouri-western-celebrates-chinese-new-year-jan-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/24\/missouri-western-celebrates-chinese-new-year-jan-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western Celebrates Chinese New Year Jan. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western State University will host a celebration of the Chinese New Year at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30 in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union room 218. The celebration is free and open to the public.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The celebration will serve as an introduction to the legends, traditions and customs of this most important Chinese festival, including music, a tai chi fan performance, games and samples of traditional dumplings and other Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Jianhua Lian, visiting instructor of Chinese, at 816-271-5812 or jlian1@missouriwestern.edu.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western State University will host a celebration of the Chinese New Year at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30 in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union room 218. The celebration is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[223,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}