{"id":52713,"date":"2022-09-23T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52713"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:40:58","slug":"20-aapi-orgs-ask-newsom-to-make-lunar-new-year-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52713","title":{"rendered":"20+ AAPI orgs ask Newsom to make Lunar New Year a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Los Angeles, CA<\/strong> &#8211; This morning, <b>over 20 Asian American organizations sent a letter to Gov. Newsom asking him to make California the first state to recognize an Asian holiday \u2013 Lunar New Year<\/b>. There are just seven days left for him to sign the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Asian Americans make up 15.4% of CA\u2019s population \u2013 and AAPIs are the fastest growing racial group. Amid the surge in anti-Asian hate, making Lunar New Year a holiday would be more than just symbolic; it would recognize how Asian Americans are part of American culture.<\/p>\n<p>As the state with the largest\u00a0Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) population, California has the opportunity to be the leader in addressing hate and fostering AANHPI belonging. Establishing a state holiday to recognize the contributions and history of the AANHPI community would be monumental for millions of AANHPIs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA &#8211; This morning,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52714,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions\/52714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}