{"id":100513,"date":"2006-05-09T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a717cf26-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-05-09T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T06:45:00","slug":"a717cf37-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a717cf37-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendiola is acting governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Joseph M. Mendiola will serve as acting governor for a few hours today in place of Gov. Benigno R. Fitial, who is in Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Mendiola said his acting status would last from about 7am to 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>He said the governor flew to Guam to meet with representatives from the U.S. military headed by the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be acting governor for a few hours,\u201d said Mendiola, a party mate of the governor under the Covenant Party.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Villagomez has not been back from Washington D.C., where he is attending a Coral Reef Initiative annual conference. The environmental event was held last week.<\/p>\n<p>As acting governor, Mendiola is scheduled to speak in honor of World War II veterans at the American Memorial Park at 9:30am today.<\/p>\n<p>Following that, Mendiola will sign a proclamation for Police Officer&#8217;s Week at the Governor&#8217;s Conference Room on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Joseph M. Mendiola will serve as acting governor for a few hours today in place of Gov. Benigno R. Fitial, who is in Guam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}