{"id":38852,"date":"2015-02-25T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=38852"},"modified":"2015-02-25T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T02:26:26","slug":"madness-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2015\/02\/25\/madness-chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The madness that was Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119529286?portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The beginning of each year always seems like a mad rush for me. There&#8217;s Christmas, and then New Year and\u00a0pretty soon before you know it, Chinese New Year has come around, complete with cymbals, angpows and a good dose of firecrackers. (That video above perfectly illustrates what I feel like right now).\u00a0I feel as though the beginning is just beginning \u2013 again \u2013 as the last of beginnings roll around.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s a good thing. Think about it \u2013 if you lost a bit of fair time recuperating for hectic year-end holiday season during New Year, you can always think of Chinese New Year as your much needed boost\u00a0to wipe the slate clean (especially when your resolutions haven&#8217;t quite kicked in yet).<\/p>\n<p>A resolution for resolutions perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>All I know is, that&#8217;s my story and I&#8217;m sticking to it!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Chinese New Year all, and if you&#8217;re in need of some goat puns to ring it in (there&#8217;s just so many this year!), here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/yingcomms.com\/18-puntastic-cny-promos-singaporemalaysia-copywriters-went-nuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">good\u00a0recap of the ones that are currently running in South East Asia<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/mothership.sg\/2015\/01\/spore-polluted-with-very-bad-chinese-new-year-of-the-goat-puns\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I kid you not. (see what I did there?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B-M5fp9IUAAtfzc.jpg:large\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>{ Video by Flatmind, credit goes to\u00a0Elia Gardella and a team. See more details over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/23612437\/CHINESE-NEW-YEAR-GOATS\" target=\"_blank\">Behance<\/a>. }<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"The madness that was Chinese New Year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2015\/02\/25\/madness-chinese-new-year\/\" aria-label=\"More on The madness that was Chinese New Year\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[123,87],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38855,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852\/revisions\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}