{"id":77292,"date":"2017-01-29T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77292"},"modified":"2017-01-28T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T21:43:52","slug":"opl-family-story-hour-celebrates-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77292","title":{"rendered":"OPL family story hour celebrates Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=61797\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61797\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61797\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg?resize=300%2C226\" alt=\"Oneida Public Library\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oneida Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Preschoolers and early elementary-school students, along with parents and guardians, can welcome in the Year of the Rooster in the traditional Chinese calendar with games, stories and refreshments at Oneida Public Library\u2019s Family Story Hour, <span data-term=\"goog_2084091172\">Wednesday, Feb. 1<\/span>, at <span data-term=\"goog_2084091173\">6:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Megan Gillander, OPL\u2019s coordinator of youth services, is planning an entertaining hour of Chinese stories, New Year\u2019s lore and a traditional Chinese craft.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese New Year, following a lunar calendar, starts <!--more-->January 28, and celebrations conclude <span data-term=\"goog_2084091174\">February 21<\/span> this year. Following the 12-sign cycle of the Chinese zodiac, each of which is assigned an animal, the year 2017 falls into the Year of the Rooster, and following the cycle of the five traditional elements in traditional Chinese science, the rooster this year is associated with fire.<\/p>\n<p>The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Megan Gillander at <a href=\"tel:(315)%20363-3050\">315-363-3050<\/a>, or stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preschoolers and early elementary-school students, along with parents and guardians, can welcome in the Year of the Rooster in the traditional Chinese calendar with games, stories and refreshments at Oneida Public Library\u2019s Family Story Hour, Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. Megan Gillander, OPL\u2019s coordinator of youth services, is planning an entertaining hour of Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61797,"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,"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},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-k6E","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg?fit=300%2C226&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}