{"id":5797,"date":"2015-04-13T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:34:05","slug":"mpr-midnimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/13\/mpr-midnimo\/","title":{"rendered":"MPR features Midnimo program&#8217;s Aar Maanta residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MPRLogo.jpeg\" alt=\"MPRLogo\" width=\"100\" height=\"88\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecedar.org\/midnimo\" target=\"_blank\">The Cedar Cultural Center<\/a>\u00a0and several other Minneapolis organizations hosted popular London-based Somali singer Aar Maanta in early April as part of the Midnimo series, a two-year partnership with Augsburg College to build cross-cultural awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Somali culture through music.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Minnesota Public Radio story\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2015\/04\/10\/aar-maanta\" target=\"_blank\">Aar Maanta is the voice of a new Somali generation<\/a>&#8221; discussed the ways in which Aar Maanta&#8217;s music resonates with Minnesotans and rejuvenates the Somali music scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cedar Cultural Center\u00a0and several other Minneapolis organizations hosted popular London-based Somali singer Aar Maanta in early April as part of the Midnimo series, a two-year partnership with Augsburg College to build cross-cultural awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Somali culture through music. The\u00a0Minnesota Public Radio story\u00a0&#8220;Aar Maanta is the voice of a new Somali generation&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,8],"tags":[3620,849,3636,3341,2002,2012,3398],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-articles","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-aar-maanta","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-midnimo","tag-mpr","tag-music","tag-the-cedar-cultural-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}