{"id":8696,"date":"2011-04-22T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T02:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8696"},"modified":"2011-04-22T17:45:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T02:15:47","slug":"14th-annual-makua-sunrise-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8696","title":{"rendered":"14th Annual Makua Sunrise Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Makua Sunrise Celebration will be held on April 24, 2011 at 6:00 am inside Makua valley.<\/p>\n<p>The first Makua sunrise service was held in 1997 on Easter morning on the beach at Makua.\u00a0 The Marines had planned to hold an amphibious invasion exercise on Makua beach that morning.\u00a0 The sunrise service included surfers and canoe paddlers in the water.\u00a0 Hawai&#8217;i Ecumenical Coalition and Malama Makua organized it.\u00a0 The Marines canceled their exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, the sunrise celebration was held in the center of Makua valley, inside the gates.\u00a0 It has been held in the valley every year since.\u00a0 2011 will be the 14th Makua Sunrise celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation from Malama Makua reads:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The main gates will open at 5:30 am, hot tea will be served and the  gathering will start at 6:am. It is open to all. It is a sharing of  hearts, minds, beliefs and hopes, a moment to remember those who have  passed on, those who have served, a time to celebrate spring and the  coming of new life and mana, and a moment to connect with our `aina,  together.\u00a0 Please bring your prayers, special readings, songs, dances,  ho`okupu. We gather and we share. Real simple.\u00a0Sometimes we share a lot  of silence.\u00a0 Bring something to sit in or on. Bring warm clothes and  maybe an umbrella for we often are blessed with the ua. And bring some  potluck to share as\u00a0afterwards\u00a0we will gather on Makua beach.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Need more info?<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Call Vince @\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\">478-6492<\/a> and Fred @\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\">696-4677<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Please share this invitation with all your contacts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ho`opomaika`i aku ia `oe me kou `ohana,<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">vkd<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Makua Sunrise Celebration will be held on April 24, 2011 at 6:00 am inside Makua valley. The first Makua sunrise service was held in 1997 on Easter morning on the beach at Makua.\u00a0 The Marines had planned to hold an amphibious invasion exercise on Makua beach that morning.\u00a0 The sunrise service included surfers and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;14th Annual Makua Sunrise Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,3],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-alerts","category-oahu","tag-makua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}