{"id":568,"date":"2011-02-20T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2012-07-20T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:43:22","slug":"bizbash-february-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/2011\/bizbash-february-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"BizBash | February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbash.com\/washington\/content\/resource\/815650_mandarin_oriental_hotel.php\">Mandarin Oriental Hotel<\/a> general manager Amanda Hyndman hosted a Chinese New Year celebration for some 300 guests in the hotel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbash.com\/washington\/content\/resource\/846289_souwester.php\">Sou&#8217;Wester<\/a> restaurant. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbash.com\/washington\/content\/resource\/815627_events_by_andre_wells.php\">Andre Wells<\/a><\/strong> worked with Mandarin associate director of catering Dominic Sanchez to produce the event, which included a live Buddha from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbash.com\/washington\/content\/resource\/815541_cast_of_thousands_entertainment_company.php\">Cast of Thousands<\/a>. Painted in gold, the statuelike performer remained silent throughout the course of the evening, holding her pose while offering winks or a cheek for a kiss. Other event highlights included an Asian market-style buffet<em>\u2014<\/em>complete with ducks hanging from poles<em>\u2014<\/em>dozens of Chinese-inspired lanterns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Mandarin Oriental Hotel general manager Amanda Hyndman hosted a Chinese New Year celebration for some 300 guests in the hotel&#8217;s Sou&#8217;Wester restaurant. Andre Wells worked with Mandarin associate director of catering Dominic Sanchez to produce the event, which included a live Buddha from Cast of Thousands. Painted in gold, the statuelike performer remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventsbyandrewells.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}