{"id":62688,"date":"2025-12-29T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/2025-in-review-san-jose-little-saigon-at-a-crossroads\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:30:07","slug":"2025-in-review-san-jose-little-saigon-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/2025-in-review-san-jose-little-saigon-at-a-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 in review: San Jose Little Saigon at a crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose\u2019s Vietnamese community sees no shortage of milestones, activism and political drama every year \u2014 2025 was no exception. Little Saigon\u2019s iconic community gathering space \u2013 a commercial plaza known as Vietnam Town \u2013 is facing a reckoning. The death of a beloved immigrant pioneer has prompted new urgency, from leaders he mentored, to hold onto Little Saigon\u2019s vanishing elders and their stories. The fate of the city\u2019s Viet Museum, which honors Vietnam War refugees, hangs in the balance. And San Jose lawmakers pushed to honor the largest Vietnamese population for a city outside Vietnam in new ways \u2013&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/2025-in-review-san-jose-little-saigon-at-a-crossroads\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose\u2019s Vietnamese community sees no shortage of milestones, activism and political drama every year \u2014 2025 was no exception. Little Saigon\u2019s iconic community gathering space \u2013 a commercial plaza known as Vietnam Town \u2013 is facing a reckoning. The death of a beloved immigrant pioneer has prompted new urgency, from leaders he mentored, to &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}