{"id":71,"date":"2017-10-09T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/10\/09\/2017108women-empowered-hosts-the-first-annual-curl-con\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:53:48","slug":"2017108women-empowered-hosts-the-first-annual-curl-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/10\/09\/2017108women-empowered-hosts-the-first-annual-curl-con\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Women Empowered&#8221; and &#8220;Naturally Me&#8221; host the first annual Curl Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Beverly Wakiaga<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">Wavy, curly, kinky, coily, straight, short and long. <\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"\n  sqs-gallery-container\n  sqs-gallery-block-slider\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n    \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n  clear\"\n  \n  \n><\/p>\n<div class=\"sqs-gallery\">\n<p>              <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0118.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0118.jpeg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0118.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0118.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"320x214\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5102040816326531,0.41479585608657527\" alt=\"DSC_0118.jpeg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"59dacbb38a02c7abc31dff53\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>              <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0060.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0060.jpeg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0060.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0060.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"320x214\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.24489795918367346,0.38418361118861605\" 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alt=\"DSC_0090.jpeg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0090.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0090.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"320x214\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"DSC_0090.jpeg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"59dacbb2017db2e1bf153ff5\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>              <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0091.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0091.jpeg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0091.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0091.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"320x214\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"DSC_0091.jpeg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"59dacbb2f43b55edb944fea7\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>              <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0103.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0103.jpeg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0103.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_0103.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"320x214\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.4557823129251701,0.49642850914779973\" alt=\"DSC_0103.jpeg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"59dacbb212abd904963acac5\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">There was plenty of hair at Quinnipiac\u2019s first annual Curl Con. <em>Women Empowered <\/em>and <em>Naturally Me<\/em> clubs held the event on Bobcat Lawn. The purpose was to give women a space to appreciate and embrace their natural hair. Students were treated to games, food, art, fashion and skin-care vendors and various raffle prizes for hair care products.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Beverly Wakiaga Wavy, curly, kinky, coily, straight, short and long. There was plenty of hair at Quinnipiac\u2019s first annual Curl Con. Women Empowered and Naturally Me clubs held the event on Bobcat Lawn. The purpose was to give women a space to appreciate and embrace their natural hair. Students were treated to games, food, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/10\/09\/2017108women-empowered-hosts-the-first-annual-curl-con\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Women Empowered&#8221; and &#8220;Naturally Me&#8221; host the first annual Curl Con<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,4,11],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quinnipiac","tag-hamden","tag-quinnipiac","tag-women-empowered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}