{"id":98887,"date":"2019-06-25T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=98887"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:59:57","slug":"hula-calls-md-student-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/25\/hula-calls-md-student-to-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Hula calls medical student to serve in Hawai\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Anthony Lim, third from the right, dances with his h\u0101lau on the Merrie Monarch stage. (Photo courtesy of Lim)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not many first-year medical students know exactly where they want to spend the rest of their lives as a doctor, but San Francisco Bay Area native Anthony Lim<\/strong> already has his mind made up: He wants to practice as a physician in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and he owes it all to his love of hula.<\/p>\n

The lights dim. The arena turns quiet. Beads of sweat form on Lim\u2019s palms and his heart begins to pound, while standing in front of thousands at the renowned Merrie Monarch Festival. <\/p>\n

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Anthony Lim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His journey to the stage<\/h2>\n

Flashback to a year ago when Lim was in the crowd watching wide-eyed as his friend performed onstage at the same festival. At that moment, he hoped that one day he would be able to dance at the Merrie Monarch Festival, too. But he thought he\u2019d have to put his dream on hold as he had been preparing to begin his journey of rigorous studies at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> in just a few months. <\/p>\n

“Dreams really do come true because I didn\u2019t know that 365 days later, I\u2019d actually be on that stage. It\u2019s pretty crazy. I just feel super lucky,” Lim said.<\/p>\n

Read more on how Lim\u2019s story unfolds.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more JABSOM<\/abbr> stories at UH<\/abbr> News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Deborah Manog Dimaya<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First-year medical student Anthony Lim found his calling to practice as a physician in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> because of his love for hula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1041,31,91,9],"class_list":["post-98887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-hula","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-student-life","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98887","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=98887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112512,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98887\/revisions\/112512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}