{"id":822,"date":"2015-12-15T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draugas.org\/news\/?p=822"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:17:35","slug":"parade-in-chicago-during-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/parade-in-chicago-during-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade in Chicago during Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-820\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-820\" src=\"http:\/\/draugas.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-12-15-DRAUGASNEWS-parading-1-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lithuanian Grandpa and Grandma \u2014 giant puppets created by local artist ugn\u0117 Carm. (J. Kuprys)\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-12-15-DRAUGASNEWS-parading-1-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-12-15-DRAUGASNEWS-parading-1-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2015-12-15-DRAUGASNEWS-parading-1.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithuanian Grandpa and Grandma \u2014 giant puppets created by local artist ugn\u0117 Carm. (J. Kuprys)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lithuanian Folk Dance Group <strong>suktinis<\/strong> marched and danced in Chicago&#8217;s McDonald\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 26. They were joined by Lithuanian Grandpa and Grandma\u2014 giant puppets created by local artist ugn\u0117 Carm. Leading the group were flag bearers Lithuania&#8217;s General Consul in Chicago Marijus Gudynas and the Consulate&#8217;s Director for Cultural and economic Affairs Agn\u0117 Vertelkait\u0117. Lithuanian participation in the parade was sponsored by the Lithuanian General Consulate of Chicago and Lithuania&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Folk Dance Group suktinis marched and danced in Chicago&#8217;s McDonald\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 26. They were joined by Lithuanian Grandpa and Grandma\u2014 giant puppets created by local artist ugn\u0117 Carm. Leading the group were flag bearers Lithuania&#8217;s General Consul in Chicago Marijus Gudynas and the Consulate&#8217;s Director for Cultural and economic Affairs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-events","category-folk-songs-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}