{"id":179752,"date":"2014-09-22T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=179752"},"modified":"2014-09-22T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:00:19","slug":"silver-explorer-visit-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/silver-explorer-visit-pagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Explorer to visit Pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Silver Explorer expedition cruise ship is scheduled to visit Pagan on Sep. 28 as well as Saipan and Tinian the next day as part of the concluding Marianas leg of a tour that included visits to various Japanese volcanic islands.<\/p>\n<p>According to Silver Explorer, visitors will explore one of the Pagan\u2019s lava flows after heading down a World War II-era Japanese runway featuring abandoned bunkers and stranded warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>They will also hike up one of the island\u2019s ridges to view two of its scenic lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Aldan of Northern Island\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Office said the tour will be a \u201chistoric visit\u201d to Pagan.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, 150 tourists are expected to visit the island.<\/p>\n<p>He said that next year, along with partners such Pacific Development, Inc., Inchcape Shipping, and Marianas Visitor\u2019s Authority, they are planning to have as many as four cruise visits to the island next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just the beginning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silver Explorer expedition cruise ship is scheduled to visit Pagan on Sep. 28 as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179752","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\/179752","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}