{"id":16911,"date":"2017-05-01T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=16911"},"modified":"2017-05-01T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:24:24","slug":"may-day-is-lei-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/05\/01\/may-day-is-lei-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Aloha! May Day is Lei Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today is both May Day AND Lei Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_Day\">May Day<\/a> is a\u00a0spring festival full of dancing, singing, and CAKE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch these children dance around the Maypole:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maypole Dancing - The Plait\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSsAvbW-uYU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>But\u00a0in Hawaii, May Day is Lei Day<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16918\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lei-For-You-postcard.jpg\" alt=\"A Lei For You postcard\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lei-For-You-postcard.jpg 813w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lei-For-You-postcard-640x402.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/>\n<p><strong>The lei is\u00a0an important part of Hawaiian culture. Each one is a symbol of the Aloha spirit.\u00a0Since May 1, 1928, Hawaiians have celebrated Lei Day as a way to honor\u00a0their unique island culture.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16920\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hawaiian-lei-vendors-1901.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaiian lei vendors 1901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hawaiian-lei-vendors-1901.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hawaiian-lei-vendors-1901-640x432.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hawaiian_lei_venders,_c._1901.jpg\">Lei vendors<\/a>, 1901<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you happen to be in Waikiki today, be sure to head to\u00a0Queen Kapiolani Park for all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.com\/discover\/may-day-in-hawaii\/\">free Lei Day festivities<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out this short film made about Lei Day in 1940, before air travel made it easy to visit the Hawaiian Islands&#8230;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HAWAII IN THE 1940s  HAWAII LEI DAY  HONOLULU 34384\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vh9C7lzUgOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Read about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiiflowerlei.com\/leitradition.aspx\">lei history here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is both May Day AND Lei Day! May Day is a\u00a0spring festival full of dancing, singing, and CAKE! Watch these children dance around the Maypole: But\u00a0in Hawaii, May Day is Lei Day! The lei is\u00a0an important part of Hawaiian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16921,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions\/16921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}