{"id":161819,"date":"2022-07-12T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=161819"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:58:06","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-awawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/12\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-awawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: Aw\u0101wa"},"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_30957\"  width=\"620\" height=\"465\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/affXGKVbAwo?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: Aw\u0101wa\"  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=awawa\">Aw\u0101wa<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;Valley, gulch, ravine. The opposite of mauna. A low, level place with high ground on each side. Aw\u0101wa is also the space between your fingers and toes. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Previous &#699;\u014dlelo<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/05\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-lako\/\">Laku<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kakoo\/\"><span aria-label=\"kakoo\">K&#257;ko&#699;o<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-halia\/\"><span aria-label=\"Halia\">Hali&#699;a<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/14\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-lalawai\/\">L\u0101l\u0101wai<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/07\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kikikoele\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kikikoele\">K&#299;k&#299;ko&#699;ele<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;\u02bbO hea kou aw\u0101wa? Which aw\u0101wa do you identify most with?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<strong>Mahi La Pierre<\/strong>, Education Specialist, K\u016bkalahale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/node\/692\">K\u016blana <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Hawaiian Programs Division<\/a>, Honolulu Community College<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other elements of the definition and usage, go to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=awawa\"><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>Aw\u0101wa&#8212;Valley, gulch, ravine. The opposite of mauna. A low, level place with high ground on each side. Aw\u0101wa is also the space between your fingers and toes.<\/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-161819","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\/161819","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=161819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161912,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161819\/revisions\/161912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}