{"id":177231,"date":"2023-05-09T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=177231"},"modified":"2023-05-08T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:57:15","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-akua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/09\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-akua\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: Akua"},"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_98660\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oVzoP5qqHQM?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: Akua\"  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=akua\">Akua<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;God, goddess, spirit, ghost, devil, image, idol, corpse; divine, supernatural, godly.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Previous &#699;\u014dlelo<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/02\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-aina\/\">&#699;\u0100ina<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/25\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kaiaulu\/\">Kai\u0101ulu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/18\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-ao-learn\/\"><span aria-label=\"Ao\">A&#699;o<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/11\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-makaikai\/\"><span aria-label=\"Makaikai\">M&#257;ka&#699;ika&#699;i<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-pilina\/\">Pilina<\/a><br \/>\nAll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I chose this Hawaiian word because I feel the deeper meaning behind this word could vary depending on the person. Every culture has a different interpretation of a &lsquo;God,&rsquo; and this word can be used many different ways. I chose this word because I believe the word God is much more than just a word.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Cessily Snell-Quirit, Early College Student, Hawaiian 101, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a><\/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=akua\"><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>Akua&#8212;God, goddess, spirit, ghost, devil, image, idol, corpse; divine, supernatural, godly.<\/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-177231","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\/177231","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=177231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177233,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177231\/revisions\/177233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}