{"id":65343,"date":"2026-04-29T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-to-name-new-park-in-honor-of-chinese-american-pioneer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:30:13","slug":"san-jose-to-name-new-park-in-honor-of-chinese-american-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-to-name-new-park-in-honor-of-chinese-american-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose to name new park in honor of Chinese American pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose\u2019s newest park will bear the name of a pioneering Chinese American business leader. Councilmembers unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to transform an undeveloped 1.2-acre parcel of land in southwest San Jose into a new park,\u00a0named in honor of the late Bill Kee, who led a fight in the 1940s to preserve San Jose\u2019s longest standing Chinatown. As councilmembers prepared to vote on the park plan, which supporters said will bring sorely needed open space to a densely populated residential area just west of Highway 87, they heard from two of Kee\u2019s descendants, who spoke in support of the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-to-name-new-park-in-honor-of-chinese-american-pioneer\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose\u2019s newest park will bear the name of a pioneering Chinese American business leader. Councilmembers unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to transform an undeveloped 1.2-acre parcel of land in southwest San Jose into a new park,\u00a0named in honor of the late Bill Kee, who led a fight in the 1940s to preserve San Jose\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343","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=65343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}