{"id":157,"date":"2008-11-16T19:44:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-11-16T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T01:13:32","slug":"obamas-star-first-ornament-for-raffle-at-dec-13-afc-holiday-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/obamas-star-first-ornament-for-raffle-at-dec-13-afc-holiday-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obama&#8217;s Star&#8217; First Ornament for Raffle at Dec. 13 AFC Holiday Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159\" src=\"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Obama's Star&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/afc-xmas-ornaments-0011.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Pictured here is &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Star,&#8221; the first of several hand-crafted ornaments (with a new one revealed each week on\u00a0AFC&#8217;s blog) to be\u00a0raffled off at the upcoming Asians and Friends Chicago Holiday Dinner, Sat., Dec. 13, 2008 at Riques Regional Mexican Restuarant, 5004 N. Sheridan, just south of Big Chicks in Chicago. The festivities will start at 7 p.m. and dinner service will be at 7:30 p.m.\u00a0Starter beer and wine will be provided.\u00a0The restaurant is BYOB. Take advantage of the presale rate of $30 by calling\u00a0the AFC Hotline (312) 409-1573 and leaving your name, phone number and number of guests by Nov. 30.\u00a0The $35 door rate will apply after that time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Star&#8221; was crafted by AFC Board Member Dat Nguyen to commemorate the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. &#8220;He is a\u00a0person of integrity and intelligence and he will do well as the country&#8217;s president. If you ask me, he will &#8216;shine.&#8217; That&#8217;s why\u00a0he&#8217;s a star.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Pictured here is &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Star,&#8221; the first of several hand-crafted ornaments (with a new one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afc","category-events","category-gay-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}