{"id":4181,"date":"2013-12-16T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2013-12-16T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:14:46","slug":"kwanzaa-at-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/12\/16\/kwanzaa-at-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwanzaa at UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;4191&#8242;]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Kwanzaa,\u00a0first celebrated in 1966-1967\u00a0and founded by Maulana Karenga, is a week-long celebration held in the United States, as well as other regions of the Americas.\u00a0The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.\u00a0 On campus, Kwanzaa observances have been led by the African-American Cultural Center before students leave\u00a0at the end of the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;4191&#8242;] Kwanzaa,\u00a0first celebrated in 1966-1967\u00a0and founded by Maulana Karenga, is a week-long celebration held in the United States, as well as other regions of the Americas.\u00a0The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/12\/16\/kwanzaa-at-uconn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}