{"id":188164,"date":"2014-12-26T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=188164"},"modified":"2014-12-26T04:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:00:25","slug":"mochitsuki-festival-paseo-de-marianas-dec-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival-paseo-de-marianas-dec-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochitsuki Festival at Paseo de Marianas on Dec. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the annual \u201cChristmas in the Marianas\u201d celebration and the Japan Society invite all revelers to join this Saturday\u2019s (Dec. 27) Mochitsuki Festival at Paseo de Marianas.  The festival marks the season preparation of mochi\u2013a dough-like substance of glutinous rice\u2013for the Japanese New Year.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188164 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival-paseo-de-marianas-dec-27\/m1\/'>m1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188167'>\n\t\t\t\tSanta Claus and the Dept. of Public Safety give out candy at the Christmas in the Marianas Parade of Floats on Dec. 20, 2014, on Saipan. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival-paseo-de-marianas-dec-27\/m2\/'>m2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188168'>\n\t\t\t\tSeveral schools participated in the Christmas in the Marianas Parade of Floats on Dec. 20, 2014, on Saipan. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival-paseo-de-marianas-dec-27\/m3\/'>m3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188169'>\n\t\t\t\tSan Antonio Elementary School participated in the Christmas in the Marianas Parade of Floats on Dec. 20, 2014, on Saipan. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival-paseo-de-marianas-dec-27\/m4\/'>m4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188170'>\n\t\t\t\tSaipan Southern High School participated in the Christmas in the Marianas Parade of Floats on Dec. 20, 2014, on Saipan. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Winners will also be announced for the Christmas Tree Decoration Contest, Christmas Caroling Contest, and Christmas Parade held earlier this month. Entertainment, games, and food sales will run from 5pm to 9:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a very enthusiastic Christmas in the Marianas celebration all month at Paseo de Marianas, and we invite the community to come down and celebrate the Mochitsuki Festival on this final Saturday,\u201d said Marianas Visitors Authority community projects manager Martin Duenas.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday\u2019s entertainment lineup includes: CNMI Awadori Dancers (5pm), Ukulele Jammers (5:30pm), Motchitsuki Festival (6pm), Poksai Guma Chamorro (6:30pm), Hopwood Jr. High (7pm), awards presentation and Refaluwasch Warriors (7:30pm), Uncle Ben\u2019 Music and Dance (8pm), and Out of the Ordinary band (8:30pm), and Saipan Music and Dance School (9pm)<\/p>\n<p>Christmas in the Marianas is organized by the MVA, Team PDI, and PDM Promoters. Additional sponsors and supporters include: T Galleria, Tan Siu Lin Foundation, DOCOMO Pacific, Kinpachi Restaurant, CNMI Public School System, Japan Saipan Travel Association, Country House Restaurant, RNV Construction, MISA Ent., Power 99, Moby Dick Restaurant, KKMP, Magic 100FM, KCNM, Teach PDI, Chamolinian Cultural Village, and Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture. <em>(MVA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the annual \u201cChristmas in the Marianas\u201d celebration and the Japan Society invite all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":188167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,43,212,133],"class_list":["post-188164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-food","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-mva","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188164","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}