{"id":135558,"date":"2021-02-16T17:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=135558"},"modified":"2024-08-07T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T23:19:25","slug":"match-made-in-manoa-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/16\/match-made-in-manoa-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#MatchMadeInManoa celebrates Valentine\u2019s Day"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_135565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135565\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-afusia.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and Kody Afusia\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-afusia.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-afusia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-afusia-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and Kody Afusia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To celebrate Valentine\u2019s Day, <a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Alumni<\/a> shared stories of alumni couples who were a #MatchMadeInManoa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia<\/strong> and <strong>Kody Afusia<\/strong> met as student athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noemi Caacbay<\/strong> and <strong>Liam Tsamous<\/strong> met through a campus organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Napela Shim<\/strong> and <strong>Garrett Scott<\/strong> connected through their Midwestern backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the couples and how their <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa love stories began at <a href=\"https:\/\/uhalumni.org\/system\/story\/match-made-in-manoa-2021\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Alumni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_135574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135574\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-2-couples.jpg\" alt=\"Noemi Caacbay and Liam Tsamous and Napela Shim and Garrett Scott\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-2-couples.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-2-couples-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/alumni-valentines-2-couples-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noemi Caacbay and Liam Tsamous (left) and Napela Shim and Garrett Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The couples met and matched in various ways through <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,271,9,550],"class_list":["post-135558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-uh-alumni-association","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135558","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=135558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135577,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135558\/revisions\/135577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}