{"id":40164,"date":"2010-09-26T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=40164"},"modified":"2010-09-28T02:33:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T07:33:14","slug":"longviews-multicultural-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=40164","title":{"rendered":"Longview&#8217;s Multicultural Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=40165\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/09\/longview-cityof-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longview-cityof\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-40165\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW &#8212; Big crowds turn out for Longview&#8217;s 4th annual Multicultural Festival Saturday. Branden Johnson is with the Longview Race Relations Committee, one of the organizing agencies. He says it&#8217;s not every day that you see &#8220;cultures from the Celtic Heritage Society to the African  Heritage Society, all under one roof.&#8221; Just a sampling of the other offerings: pipes and drums, praise and worship, Mexican music, cloggers, martial arts, African drumming, blues, belly dancing, a smorgasbord of booths, and some eye-catching cars.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson says the festival&#8217;s an effort to bring the community together, fight racism, and have some fun doing it. He adds that he&#8217;s happy with the increased support. According to Johnson, additional funding &#8220;just really, really expanded the effort to get out to the community and let them know that, hey, we&#8217;re here to help you come together.&#8221; The<br \/>\nCity of Longview and the local Partners in Prevention agency also helped organize the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Big crowds turn out for Longview&#8217;s 4th annual Multicultural Festival Saturday. Branden Johnson is with the Longview Race Relations Committee, one of the organizing agencies. He says it&#8217;s not every day that you see &#8220;cultures from the Celtic Heritage Society to the African Heritage Society, all under one roof.&#8221; Just a sampling of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=40164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview&#8217;s Multicultural Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 23:57:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40164"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40504,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40164\/revisions\/40504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}