{"id":5544,"date":"2015-03-12T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:44:46","slug":"mai-vang-14-interviewed-by-pioneer-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/12\/mai-vang-14-interviewed-by-pioneer-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Vang &#8217;14 interviewed by Pioneer Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/03\/logo-small.png\" alt=\"logo-small\" width=\"204\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a>Mai Vang &#8217;14<\/strong>\u00a0appeared in a Pioneer Press article\u00a0about the increase in socio-economic achievements\u00a0for those in the Hmong community in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Vang,\u00a0who&#8217;s family settled here in the 1970s, said hard work and determination has brought increased\u00a0success for herself and others in the Hmong community in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents, Vang said,\u00a0motivated her to &#8220;\u2026go to school and be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vang holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in sociology\u00a0from Augsburg College.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_27676754\/minnesota-hmong-at-40-first-immigrants-set-bar\" target=\"_blank\">read the article<\/a>, visit the Pioneer Press news site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mai Vang &#8217;14\u00a0appeared in a Pioneer Press article\u00a0about the increase in socio-economic achievements\u00a0for those in the Hmong community in the Twin Cities. Vang,\u00a0who&#8217;s family settled here in the 1970s, said hard work and determination has brought increased\u00a0success for herself and others in the Hmong community in recent years. Her parents, Vang said,\u00a0motivated her to &#8220;\u2026go &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,8],"tags":[849,3636,3546,3186],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-mai-vang","tag-pioneer-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}