{"id":3840,"date":"2017-01-27T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:31:24","slug":"happy-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/happy-chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Happy Chinese New Year<\/strong> to everyone that is celebrating!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to wish those who are celebrating a Happy Chinese New Year\u00a0\u2013 we hope you all have a fantastic time celebrating with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unsure what it&#8217;s all about, then here are some of the traditions held at this time of year. Saturday<strong> 28 January<\/strong> marks the start of the Year of the Rooster.\u00a0Roosters are said to be the most motivated animal in the Chinese zodiac and always put their careers first.\u00a0Babies born this year will be well suited to becoming a journalist, soldier or surgeon \u2013 according to traditional beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>It is also traditional to give red envelopes containing money to colleagues and family members.\u00a0The red symbolises good luck and the money wishes the recipient good fortune for times to come. The red envelopes are also used to fend off bad spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Chinese New Year to everyone that is celebrating! We&#8217;d like to wish those who are celebrating a Happy Chinese New Year\u00a0\u2013 we hope you all have a fantastic time celebrating with family and friends. If you&#8217;re unsure what it&#8217;s all about, then here are some of the traditions held at this time of year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/happy-chinese-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Chinese New Year!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3036,"featured_media":3841,"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":[153],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-activities","tag-tuesday-31-january-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2017\/01\/chinese-new-year.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-ZW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}