{"id":159625,"date":"2012-03-13T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beaddb67-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-03-13T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:41:00","slug":"beaddb78-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/beaddb78-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA, partners welcome Queen Mary 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority is joining forces with other government and tourism industry partners to give a warm \u201chafa adai yan tirow\u201d welcome to passenger cruise ship Queen Mary II, arriving tomorrow, March 15, on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>The MVA, Commonwealth Council for Arts &#038; Culture, and Dept. of Community and Cultural Affairs\u2019 Garapan Street Market will welcome the Queen Mary II with local vendors selling food, arts, and crafts at Smiling Cove Marina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisitors arriving via ships are an important part of our overall tourism arrivals, and we\u2019re pleased to welcome the Queen Mary II to our beautiful islands,\u201d said MVA Community Projects manager Martin Duenas.<\/p>\n<p>The British flagship carries over 3,600 passengers and crew and will be in Saipan for the day. [B][I](MVA)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority is joining forces with other government and tourism industry partners to give a warm \u201chafa adai yan tirow\u201d welcome to passenger cruise ship Queen Mary II, arriving tomorrow, March 15, on Saipan.<\/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-159625","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\/159625","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=159625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}