{"id":3214,"date":"2017-02-03T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:08:09","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year of the Rooster has arrived in China! Yeah! More Holidays for the local population! It was uncannily quiet as a government crackdown on firecrackers has been quite thorough. Hardly a peep in the village! \ud83d\ude41 Our celebration included a scrumptious meal of homemade dumplings courtesy of Mandy&#8217;s father and mother. They are experts at the craft and they were very, very\u00a0 patient with our attempts to \u201cbao jiao ze\u201d. Boy, were they delicious!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3208\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3208\" class=\" wp-image-3208\" src=\"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/daumplings-533x400.jpg\" alt=\"Making dumpling (learning with the experts)\" width=\"435\" height=\"329\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making dumpling (learning with the experts)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3207\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\" wp-image-3207\" src=\"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/cny_dinner-600x386.jpg\" alt=\"Enjoying dumplings on Chinese New Year\" width=\"456\" height=\"297\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoying dumplings on Chinese New Year<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t<style 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Yeah! More Holidays for the local population! It was uncannily quiet as a government crackdown on firecrackers has been quite thorough. Hardly a peep in the village! \ud83d\ude41 Our celebration included &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=3214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordproject_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}