{"id":2899,"date":"2016-02-26T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:23:34","slug":"chinese-new-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/chinese-new-year-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year to all our Chinese students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Chinese New Year is the biggest Chinese festival of the year, and we at GoGlobal love to celebrate it with our students!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-961\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/goglobal\/files\/2016\/02\/New-Year-event-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-961\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/goglobal\/files\/2016\/02\/New-Year-event-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"New Year event 2\" width=\"363\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sampling some traditional Chinese food!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As it&#8217;s based on the lunar calendar, the date changes each year, falling in either January or February to correspond to the black or new moon. As we move into the year of the monkey, we thought it&#8217;d be a great idea to highlight the fantastic event that our students put on to mark the start of the new year!<\/p>\n<p>A celebration event was set up and organised by\u00a0event management students from the Sheffield Business School and our own International Experience Team; the event included delicious traditional food, craft and cultural demonstrations, as well as a chance to learn about how Chinese New Year is celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>For more images, check out this album from Sheffield Hallam on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SheffieldHallamUniversityInternational\/photos\/a.929393923767913.1073741908.362447947129183\/929394147101224\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Facebook<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese New Year is the biggest Chinese festival of the year, and we at GoGlobal love to celebrate it with our students! &nbsp; As it&#8217;s based on the lunar calendar, the date changes each year, falling in either January or February to correspond to the black or new moon. As we move into the year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/chinese-new-year-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Chinese New Year to all our Chinese students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3036,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-activities","tag-tne-29-february-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2016\/02\/New-Year-event-crop.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-KL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}