{"id":1660,"date":"2016-02-03T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/03\/this-chinese-new-year-is-all-monkey-business-for-brands\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:06:05","slug":"this-chinese-new-year-is-all-monkey-business-for-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/03\/this-chinese-new-year-is-all-monkey-business-for-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"This Chinese New Year is all monkey business for brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hm\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzAzLzJhL2htLmViNjIzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/6a9b13d7\/003\/hm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=This+Chinese+New+Year+is+all+monkey+business+for+brands&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F03%2Fmonkey-2016-brands%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F03%2Fmonkey-2016-brands%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Year of the Monkey this Chinese New Year, and brands are all monkeying around for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>From fashion accessories to game consoles, brands are taking the chance to go all out with monkey-themed designs and packaging. And the best bit? You don&#8217;t have to be born in the year of the monkey to get in on the fun.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/05\/apple-watch-cny\/\">Apple is releasing a red and gold Watch just for Chinese New Year<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are six cute ways to ring in the new Chinese animal zodiac, so go crazy.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/03\/monkey-2016-brands\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/marketing\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/lifestyle\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lifestyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/chinese-new-year\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Chinese New Year<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/lunar-new-year\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lunar New Year<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/year-of-the-monkey\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Year Of The Monkey<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/60Ikkokyso4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Year of the Monkey this Chinese New Year, and brands are all monkeying around for the occasion. From fashion accessories to game consoles, brands are taking the chance to go all out with monkey-themed designs and packaging. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/03\/this-chinese-new-year-is-all-monkey-business-for-brands\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1302,788,1303,922,1304],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-lifestyle","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-marketing","tag-year-of-the-monkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}