{"id":8687,"date":"2015-01-27T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2015-02-25T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:12:38","slug":"makers-lane-nicole-ponseca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/makers-lane-nicole-ponseca\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker&#8217;s Lane: Nicole Ponseca"},"content":{"rendered":"<link href='http:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Kalam:700' rel='stylesheet' type='text\/css'>\n<section class='parallax'><\/section>\n<div><div style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\" class=\"separator transparent\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"arve wp-block-nextgenthemes-arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-6mmyky6rlfm6a9d62c95e638229696084\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\">\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 940 \/ 529\">\n<span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.276596%\"><\/span><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-6mmyky6rlfm6a9d62c95e638229696084\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6MmykY6rLFM?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6MmykY6rLFM?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/apa.si.edu\\\/now\\\/makers-lane-nicole-ponseca\\\/#arve-youtube-6mmyky6rlfm6a9d62c95e638229696084\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/6MmykY6rLFM?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Nicole Ponseca remembers being embarrassed, as a child, when her father ate with his hand. \u201cSo I would pray, \u2018Please, Dad, if you\u2019re going to eat with your hands, can you order a pizza?\u2019 Because then at least it would be normal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>As a Filipino American, Ponseca grew up in schools where \u201ceveryone\u2019s exchanging ham sandwiches and Cheetos and Lunchables and you hear the slow pop of the Tupperware and then the smell of adobo and it\u2019s a little embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when Ponseca decided to start a Filipino restaurant, the aspects of Filipino cuisine that used to embarrass her became her inspiration. When Hurricane Sandy hit, the crowds dwindled. Ponseca began looking for a way to bring people back to the restaurant and thought of the way her father used to eat with his hands. \u201cDoing Kamayan was a way we could get bodies in here,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we would teach people the technique of eating with your hands and it blew up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; text-shadow: none;\"><a style=\"background-color: #db0707; padding: 10px; color: #fff; text-align: center; font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/maharlikanyc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maharlika<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a style=\"background-color: #db0707; padding: 10px; color: #fff; text-align: center; font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeepneynyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeepney<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class='parallax'><\/section>\n<div><div style=\"margin-top:50px;margin-bottom:50px;\" class=\"separator transparent\"><\/div>\n<p>Maker\u2019s Lane is a documentary series by APA filmmaker Sahra Vang Nguyen about creative entrepreneurs in New York City. In its first season, Maker\u2019s Lane highlighted Asian Pacific American trailblazers during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Now in its second season, Maker\u2019s Lane widens its lens to explore the process of creativity amongst a diverse set of creative innovators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; text-shadow: none;\"><a style=\"background-color: #db0707; padding: 10px; color: #fff; text-align: center; font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianapa.org\/now\/tag\/makers-lane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Watch other episodes of Maker&#8217;s Lane<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;\" class=\"separator transparent\"><\/div><\/div>\n<section class='parallax'><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino American restauranteur Nicole Ponseca talks about how her love of Filipino food got her started in the restaurant business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[196,195,194,7,193],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","category-videos","tag-filipino-american","tag-jeepney","tag-maharlika","tag-makers-lane","tag-nicole-ponseca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}