{"id":186177,"date":"2023-10-31T18:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T04:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=186177"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:50:53","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hoailona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hoailona\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: H\u014d\u02bbailona"},"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_56513\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-aZXI_NwjE?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: H\u014d\u02bbailona\"  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:\/\/wehe.hilo.hawaii.edu\/?q=hoailona\"><span aria-label=\"Hoailona\">H&#333;&#699;ailona<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;Sign, symbol, omen.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\">All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sometimes the easiest way to recognize if you are on the right path of your academic journey is to take a moment to stop and take in the sign (<span aria-label=\"hoailona\">h&#333;&#699;ailona<\/span>) around you. It could be a certain song that suddenly plays on the radio, or the smell of a fragrance wafting through the breeze reminding you of a certain family member who believed in you. No matter what it is, it is important that we pay attention to the signs around us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Kawena Lorenzo, <span aria-label=\"kuaana\">kua&#699;ana<\/span> (senior peer mentor) Leeward Community College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/kipuka\">K\u012bpuka Native Hawaiian Center<\/a> and student at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/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:\/\/wehe.hilo.hawaii.edu\/?q=hoailona\"><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=\"Hoailona\">H&#333;&#699;ailona<\/span>&#8212;Sign, symbol, omen.<\/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-186177","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\/186177","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=186177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221695,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186177\/revisions\/221695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}