{"id":101038,"date":"2014-12-04T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101038"},"modified":"2014-12-04T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:13:20","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-aloha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101038","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of Aloha?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The word &#8220;Aloha&#8221; has several meanings, and they all share a common Hawaiian origin, history and culture. So what does Aloha mean?<\/p>\n<p>History books are not clear when did the &#8220;Aloha&#8221; expression enter the Hawaiian vocabulary, but several sources date it back to the end of the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>The official publications tell us\u00a0that &#8220;Aloha&#8221; derives from the Proto-Polynesian word &#8220;qarofa&#8221;. Interestingly, the Maori language has a similar word with identical meanings &#8211; &#8220;aroha.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aloha means\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/11238-what-is-the-meaning-of-aloha?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surfing+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;Aloha&#8221; has several meanings, and they all share a common Hawaiian origin, history and culture. So what does Aloha mean? History books are not clear when did the &#8220;Aloha&#8221; expression enter the Hawaiian vocabulary, but several sources date it back to the end of the 18th century. The official publications tell us\u00a0that &#8220;Aloha&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101039,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101038\/revisions\/101039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}