{"id":12183,"date":"2015-02-28T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/courtneymccall\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-02-28T10:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:47:24","slug":"happy-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/happy-chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you may or may not know, the celebration of Chinese New Year began February 19th. I had always know about the holiday, but have never personally celebrated it before. This year, I embarked on a cultural tradition that is meant to clear negative vibes and welcome peace and happiness, and I loved every minute of it. It all began with a quick trip to Windsor, Ontario to a wonderful Chinese restaurant named\u00a0<a style=\"color: #660099\" href=\"http:\/\/maywahinn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May Wah Inn Chinese Cuisine<\/a>. One large food order and an hour later, my roommate, boyfriend, and I have enjoyed a great dinner surrounded by smiling faces and positives attitudes all around.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has always had a passionate interest in different cultures and ways of life, I strive to remain open-minded and ready to try new things. I believe it is so important for people of any culture to experience another culture. Life&#8217;s perspectives are shaped in part by the things we experience and know. I hope to continue\u00a0to encourage individuals to step outside of their comfort zones to see a difference world.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, my roommate and I through a Chinese New Year celebration at out apartment. Complete with a dumpling making station, fried rice, \u00a0hot &amp; sour soup, and more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xpf1\/v\/t1.0-9\/1467247_10155352184875347_1531893621332703802_n.jpg?oh=146b8e2862db00dda7f299d8b677dd46&amp;oe=554C7BB7\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Switching from the norm in the smallest ways, can really make all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peace and blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Courtney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you may or may not know, the celebration of Chinese New Year began February 19th. I had always know about the holiday, but have never personally celebrated it before. This year, I embarked on a cultural tradition that is meant to clear negative vibes and welcome peace and happiness, and I loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}