{"id":156358,"date":"2011-11-02T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bd8ddeaa-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-11-02T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:35:00","slug":"bd8ddebe-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bd8ddebe-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"To my detractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I grow up, I just want to be like those people who write negative comments in our local newspapers. Reading your comments only makes me stronger. It shows that even if my stuff is not worthy, you read it anyway. Gotcha! I want to be like Mitch Westland (if that\u2019s your real name) if I grow up. I do hope one day I would be a student in your class, that is, if teaching\u2019s your profession. What\u2019s the matter? The U.S. is too good for you, that\u2019s why you\u2019re here? I admit though, that I rushed my article without proofreading but never have I used a ghostwriter or asked anyone for assistance for that matter. And at times I do forget to put the \u201ci\u2019s\u201d before the \u201ce\u2019s.\u201d At least I have the marbles to express my thoughts without using a fictitious name. That\u2019s if you are using one, are you? Commenting on every news article rather than sharing ideas to move the Commonwealth forward is useless, if not pointless, if you don\u2019t put your teaching credentials to good use. Just a friendly advice. Anyway, I got my point across, whether you like it or not and that\u2019s the bottom line. I thank you for taking the time to grade me and allowing me to take corrective measures in the future. Just one of those local boys with limited talents. Mr. Westland, can you grade this article or anyone else\u2019s writing? Again, thanks for your constructive criticism and perhaps someday I could bring my writings to your attention for some editing. Over coffee of course!<\/p>\n<p>[B]Vince G. Cabrera[\/B]<br \/>\n[I]Chalan Piao, Saipan[\/I]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I grow up, I just want to be like those people who write negative comments in our local newspapers. Reading your comments only makes me stronger. It shows that even if my stuff is not worthy, you read it anyway. Gotcha! I want to be like Mitch Westland (if that\u2019s your real name) if I grow up. I do hope one day I would be a student in your class, that is, if teaching\u2019s your profession. What\u2019s the matter? <\/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-156358","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\/156358","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=156358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}