{"id":156922,"date":"2011-11-24T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdaa66ed-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-11-24T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:22:00","slug":"bdaa66fe-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bdaa66fe-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Yumul eyes Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ray Yumul (R-Saipan) said he is eyeing a Senate seat in the 2012 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Yumul said he does not have a final decision yet, but is putting together an \u201cexploratory committee based on requests and comments from supporters and family to consider running as senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Yumul said he has not decided yet under which party he will run. He said the choices are whether to run under the Republican Party, of which he has been a member for years, or as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In the midterm election, one Saipan senatorial seat is up for grabs\u2014the one currently held by Sen. Luis Crisostimo (Ind-Saipan). The other senatorial seats up for grabs next year are those of Senate President Paul Manglona (Ind-Rota) and Sen. Henry San Nicolas (Cov-Saipan). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ray Yumul (R-Saipan) said he is eyeing a Senate seat in the 2012 midterm elections.<\/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-156922","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\/156922","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=156922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}