{"id":552173,"date":"2026-01-22T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/552173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:30:13","slug":"be-a-part-of-the-wolves-aapi-night-2026-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/552173\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Part of the Wolves AAPI Night 2026 Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">TW: There is a Filipino sun in the design. Why was that important to include?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">LH: I am mixed. My mom is from the Philippines and my dad is from Minnesota. Being featured for AAPI Night, I wanted some visual sign of that. I am not trying to represent everyone. I am just representing myself and my experience. A lot of mixed people grow up feeling like they are both and neither at the same time. I want my work to help people feel seen, whether they share my background or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">TW: What do you hope people feel when they see themselves in your work?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">LH: Nobody is a monolith. AAPI is not one story. There are so many identities that will be in that building on that night. My hope is that someone sees something in the sweatshirt that feels familiar to them, even if it is small. And even if they do not connect to it culturally, they might just think, \u201cThat is cool. I want to wear that.\u201d That matters too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TW: There is a Filipino sun in the design. Why was that important to include? LH: I am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,5842,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-552173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-general","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","12":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115936167507483896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}