{"id":184986,"date":"2014-11-14T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=184986"},"modified":"2014-11-14T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:00:13","slug":"tribute-friend-jesus-taitano-aldan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tribute-friend-jesus-taitano-aldan\/","title":{"rendered":"A tribute to a friend: Jesus Taitano Aldan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father who takes care of his family.<br \/>\nA true friend who is there when you are down.<br \/>\nA fisherman who knows the way of the ocean.<br \/>\nA Chamorro warrior and an American who will defend our freedom.<br \/>\nA karaoke singer that will rock you out of your feet.<br \/>\nAn advocate of Protect Pagan<br \/>\nA community leader who help those in needs<br \/>\nYou, like your brother Dave, are true friends.<br \/>\nYou left us quietly.<br \/>\nYou came into our life and brought hope and smiles during trying times.<br \/>\nYou wanted to talk to me about our political journey.<br \/>\nYou did not wait to see the result.<br \/>\nMay your spirit guide us in our quest for a better Commonwealth.<br \/>\nFarewell my friend as you sail your Chamorro proa to the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Villagomez<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chalan Kiya, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father who takes care of his family. A true friend who is there when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[995,1346,21,1347],"class_list":["post-184986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-chalan-kiya","tag-jesus-taitano-aldan","tag-life","tag-protect-pagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184986","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}