{"id":7089,"date":"2014-04-16T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2014-04-16T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:50:24","slug":"hawaii-bali-to-become-sister-states-at-honolulu-signing-ceremony-linking-island-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/16\/hawaii-bali-to-become-sister-states-at-honolulu-signing-ceremony-linking-island-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii, Bali to become sister states at Honolulu signing ceremony linking island cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lei1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7142\" alt=\"lei1\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lei1.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lei1.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lei1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HONOLULU &#8211; Hawaii and the Indonesian island of Bali are becoming sister states.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Indonesian Consul General Hadi Martono were scheduled to attend a signing ceremony at the governor&#8217;s chambers on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A reception featuring hula and Balinese dance will follow.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Gene Ward has been a driving force behind establishing the new relationship. He will also be at the ceremony, along with the Hawaii-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and the Indonesian Club of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii and Bali have a lot in common: Both are major international tourist destinations, favoured spots for surfers and have rich musical and dance traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii forms\u00a0 &#8220;sibling&#8221; ties with other parts of the world when there&#8217;s evidence of substantial grassroots support, potential for expanding exchanges and both sides are expected to benefit economically.<\/p>\n<p>The state says relationships like these raise Hawaii&#8217;s profile around the world and stimulate Hawaii&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii has 15 other sister state relationships, including five with provinces in the Philippines and four with Japanese prefectures.<\/p>\n<p>Two Hawaii sister states are in China. Morocco, Portugal, South Korea and Taiwan each have one Hawaii sister state.<\/p>\n<p>Fukuoka prefecture in Japan was the first to become a sister state of Hawaii, in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; HONOLULU &#8211; Hawaii and the Indonesian island of Bali are becoming sister states. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Indonesian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[2177,1226,900],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-bali","tag-hawaii","tag-hi","mauthors-audrey-mcavoy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}