{"id":801,"date":"2011-06-03T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-06-24T06:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:08:58","slug":"featured-event-afc-pride-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/featured-event-afc-pride-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Event &#8211; AFC Pride Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Event: Sat. June 18\u2014AFC\u2019s Pride &amp; Absinthe Gathering<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen (Fairy) Tea Party\u201d<br \/>\nCelebrating Pride &amp; Absinthe<br \/>\nSaturday, June 18, 2011<br \/>\n4 p.m. to 6 p.m.<br \/>\nDana Hotel and Spa<br \/>\nVertigo Sky\/Rooftop Lounge<br \/>\n660 North State Street<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois<br \/>\nFor more information, call our hotline at (312) 409-1573 or e-mail Angel at AngelChgo@aol.com<\/p>\n<p>Embracing the theme of absinthe\u2014a distilled drink best known for giving those who partake a vision of the \u201cgreen fairy\u201d\u2014Asians and Friends Chicago (AFC) will host a \u201cGreen (Fairy) Tea Party\u201d to celebrate Pride month, as a way to honor the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community and raise money for AIDS-awareness and Japanese earthquake relief charities.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested donation will be $15 prior to the event and $20 at the door. Donations can be given online through PayPal on this site or by mailing a check to Asians and Friends Chicago, P.O. Box A 3916, Chicago, Illinois 60690-3916.<\/p>\n<p>Price includes a $0.95 credit card processing charge per ticket purchased.<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/> <input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Y57CUR7D46JCJ\" \/> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/WEBSCR-640-20110429-1\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/WEBSCR-640-20110429-1\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n<p>In addition to a stunning view of downtown\u2019s near north area, guests will take part in an absinthe presentation and tasting. Event sponsor GAM-TV USA will also be on hand to debut its official web site and show its comedy-drama \u201cwebisode\u201d series called \u201cPink Underwear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Event: Sat. June 18\u2014AFC\u2019s Pride &amp; Absinthe Gathering \u201cGreen (Fairy) Tea Party\u201d Celebrating Pride<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afc","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}