{"id":47877,"date":"2018-09-18T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=47877"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:56:40","slug":"acc-honors-hispanic-heritage-at-diez-y-seis-celebration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/09\/18\/acc-honors-hispanic-heritage-at-diez-y-seis-celebration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC honors Hispanic heritage at D\u00edez y Seis celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72157699863406621\/\" title=\"Diez y Seis by Austin Community College, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1895\/30876315998_3df22a0b33.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='2018 Diez y Seis'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Austin Community College District celebrated its 11<sup>th<\/sup> annual D\u00edez y Seis event on Monday, September 17, at Riverside Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds joined the festivities which featured traditional food, music from Johnny Degollado y su Conjunto, and performances from Roy Lozano\u2019s Ballet Folklorico.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the ACC Center for Public Policy and Political Studies, the cultural celebration commemorates Mexico\u2019s declaration of independence and Texas\u2019 first independence day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Texas Senator Gonzalo Barrientos served as the special guest speaker along with Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe celebrate and honor Mexico because they are part of our family,\u201d said Mayor Adler.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Community College District celebrated its 11th annual D\u00edez y Seis event on Monday, September 17, at Riverside Campus. Hundreds joined the festivities which featured traditional food, music from Johnny Degollado y su Conjunto, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/09\/18\/acc-honors-hispanic-heritage-at-diez-y-seis-celebration-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,1],"tags":[1124,825,448,400],"class_list":["post-47877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-updates","tag-ballet-folklorico-de-roy-lozano","tag-celebration","tag-diez-y-seis","tag-riverside-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}