{"id":54121,"date":"2024-12-30T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/2024-in-review-little-saigon-had-a-roller-coaster-year\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:13:04","slug":"2024-in-review-little-saigon-had-a-roller-coaster-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/2024-in-review-little-saigon-had-a-roller-coaster-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 in review: Little Saigon had a roller-coaster year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A courtroom battle over an alleged \u2018Godfather.\u2019 A City Hall protest against one San Jose mayoral staffer. A fight for control of a Vietnamese cultural garden. The takedown of a renowned charity organization. A common thread connected all these stories in 2024: unhealed wounds over the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese community is more dynamic and complex than an ideological conflict during the 1970s. But labeling someone a communist for doing business overseas was enough to stir local defamation lawsuits, public protests and even scrutiny over San Jose\u2019s multi-million-dollar recycling contract. But there were also major victories and milestones, including the&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/2024-in-review-little-saigon-had-a-roller-coaster-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A courtroom battle over an alleged \u2018Godfather.\u2019 A City Hall protest against one San Jose mayoral staffer. A fight for control of a Vietnamese cultural garden. The takedown of a renowned charity organization. A common thread connected all these stories in 2024: unhealed wounds over the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese community is more dynamic and &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":54122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-54121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}