{"id":185474,"date":"2023-10-24T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=185474"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:54:15","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/24\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: La\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_78364\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w39rIr62iQU?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Hawaiian Word of the Week: La\u02bbi\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=lai\"><span aria-label=\"Lai\">La&#699;i<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;Calm, stillness, quiet<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Previous &#699;\u014dlelo<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/17\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hana-paa\/\">Hana <span aria-label=\"paa\">pa&#699;a<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/10\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kokee\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kokee\">K&#333;ke&#699;e<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kaona\/\">Kaona<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/26\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-nani\/\">Nani<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/19\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-laulima\/\">Laulima<\/a><br \/>\nAll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He p&#333; walea, he ao walea i ka <span aria-label=\"lai\">la&#699;i<\/span> (A night enjoyed, a day enjoyed). In the fast-pace of our world today, it is easy to get caught up in the grind and forget to remain connected within ourselves. Make time daily to pause, reflect, and nurture your inner peace so that you can be centered and pono (balanced) in your efforts to make <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, and the world, a better place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Kaleik\u016bkamakani Ruiz, Counselor, Leeward Community College<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other elements of the definition and usage, go to the <abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=lai\"><em>Wehewehe Wikiwiki<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg\" alt=\"Olelo of the week\" width=\"676\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-130x31.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Lai\">La&#699;i<\/span>&#8212;Calm, stillness, quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[61,33,1057,62,63,64,65,1530,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-185474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-olelo-of-the-week","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185487,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185474\/revisions\/185487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}