{"id":124953,"date":"2008-08-02T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b0efc35c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2008-08-02T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:58:00","slug":"b0efc36c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/b0efc36c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselor for veterans, families visiting this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A counselor from the Guam Veterans Center office will be on island for three days later this month to counsel soldiers and family members.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Coleman, executive director for the Office of Military and Veterans Affairs, said it\u2019s important family members have an outlet to discuss and share what they are going through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne parent is left to hold a candle burning to take care of the family. It can be stressful,\u201d she said <\/p>\n<p>Children of soldiers are also invited to speak with the counselor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of issues, too, for children,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Although no concrete dates have been set for the counselor\u2019s arrival, it will be in mid-August, Coleman said. Those interested will be able to make an appointment or walk in. One day will be dedicated to a mass briefing. <\/p>\n<p>Counselors from Guam have been coming to the island every month since April, she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A counselor from the Guam Veterans Center office will be on island for three days later this month to counsel soldiers and family members.<\/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-124953","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\/124953","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=124953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}