{"id":83072,"date":"2025-12-28T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83072\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:04:12","slug":"kwanzaa-kicks-off-in-the-capital-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83072\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwanzaa kicks off in the Capital Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">ALBANY \u2014 Residents gathered together on Friday to celebrate the opening of\u00a0Kwanzaa, the multi-day festival of African-American culture and heritage, at the New York State Museum in Albany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">The free event included live drumming, a candlelighting ceremony, line dancing with Mind Body Soul Studio and more. Speakers also highlighted the first principle of Kwanzaa: umoja, or unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">Kwanzaa continues through Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2014 Residents gathered together on Friday to celebrate the opening of\u00a0Kwanzaa, the multi-day festival of African-American culture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30394,10370,844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-83072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alco","9":"tag-gallery","10":"tag-latestnews","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}