{"id":194565,"date":"2015-03-24T04:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=194565"},"modified":"2015-03-24T04:20:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:20:57","slug":"friends-for-life-bond-over-island-beautification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/friends-for-life-bond-over-island-beautification\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Friends for Life\u2019 bond over island beautification"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_194566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194566\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Friends-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-194566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Friends-pix-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Friends for Life took time for some humor as they picked up trash from Oleai Beach to Sugar Dock on March 7,2015, as part of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s Beautify My Marianas program.  (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends for Life took time for some humor as they picked up trash from Oleai Beach to Sugar Dock on March 7,2015, as part of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s Beautify My Marianas program. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFriends for Life,\u201d a group of high school friends, bonded again to join the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s Beautify My Marianas campaign on March 7, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started our cleanup this time at 7:30am since we would be cleaning for two miles,\u201d said the group in their after-action report. \u201cNow we are nine people who are participating; one of our friends can\u2019t show up anymore. He has a stable job and we understand his situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group collected 260 lbs of trash from Oleai Beach to Sugar Dock, their second cleanup in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made ourselves tired picking up rubbish off the ground for two long miles, but it wasn\u2019t bad because we talked to [keep] ourselves out of boredom. There were no complaints. We collected 12 bags full of trash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d program offers $100 for each 1-mile cleanup in assigned areas. For more information or an application, visit the MVA homepage at www.mymarianas.com. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFriends for Life,\u201d a group of high school friends, bonded again to join the Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":194566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43,212,67,685],"class_list":["post-194565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-mva","tag-people","tag-sugar-dock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194565","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=194565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}