{"id":1909,"date":"2025-05-31T05:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:39:49","slug":"greetings-for-dragon-boat-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/31\/greetings-for-dragon-boat-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Greetings for Dragon Boat 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Alumni,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We wish you a happy dragon boat and rice dumpling holiday on 31 May 2025<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?resize=640%2C496&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1911\" style=\"width:373px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?w=737&amp;ssl=1 737w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The festival symbolizes unity, friendship, and remembrance.&nbsp;The synchronised paddling in dragon boat races, highlights the spirit of working together towards a common goal of winning the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves, often eaten as a delicacy on the festival day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Festival, mug wort (Ai) and calamus (Changpu) are considered lucky and are traditionally hungover doors or carried to bring good fortune.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-5.png?resize=634%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1912\" style=\"width:372px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-5.png?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-5.png?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Source from AI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alumni, We wish you a happy dragon boat and rice dumpling holiday on 31 May 2025 The festival symbolizes unity, friendship, and remembrance.&nbsp;The synchronised paddling in dragon boat races, highlights the spirit of working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 13:12:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtinalumni.hk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}