{"id":37460,"date":"2014-09-23T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37460"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:06:08","slug":"hapa-palooza-celebrates-canadas-mixed-heritage-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37460","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hapa-palooza&#8217; Celebrates Canada&#8217;s Mixed-Heritage Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/hapa-palooza-celebrates-canadas-mixed-heritage-residents-n208141\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>&#8216;Hapa-palooza&#8217; Celebrates Canada&#8217;s Mixed-Heritage Residents<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2014-09-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.franceskaihwawang.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Frances Kai-Hwa Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver<\/a> is gearing up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hapapalooza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa-palooza Festival<\/a>, the world&#8217;s largest celebration of mixed heritage and hybrid identity, to be held at locations throughout the city this month. The word \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>\u201d usually means a person who is part Asian or Pacific Islander, but festival organizers are taking a much more expansive view to include \u201cmixed heritage and hybrid cultural identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up there was little to no awareness about the experiences of being mixed,\u201d says festival co-founder Zarah Martz. \u201cCanada prides itself on being a multicultural country, and Hapa-palooza explores the blending of various cultures and backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/hapa-palooza-celebrates-canadas-mixed-heritage-residents-n208141\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hapa-palooza&#8217; Celebrates Canada&#8217;s Mixed-Heritage Residents NBC News 2014-09-22 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Vancouver is gearing up for the Hapa-palooza Festival, the world&#8217;s largest celebration of mixed heritage and hybrid identity, to be held at locations throughout the city this month. The word \u201chapa\u201d usually means a person who is part Asian or Pacific Islander, but festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,19,8],"tags":[17949,15127,6790,17950],"class_list":["post-37460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-frances-kai-hwa-wang","tag-nbc-news","tag-vancouver","tag-zarah-martz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}