{"id":194777,"date":"2015-03-26T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=194777"},"modified":"2015-03-26T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:00:10","slug":"us-envoy-urges-pohnpei-women-to-take-responsibility-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-envoy-urges-pohnpei-women-to-take-responsibility-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy urges Pohnpei women to take responsibility for themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Ambassador Doria Rosen presented the keynote remarks on Friday, March 13, at Pohnpei\u2019s celebration of International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Using the theme for the day, \u201cMy Life, My Responsibility,\u201d she called on women to take responsibility for themselves and those within their sphere of influence. Much of the talk stressed the importance of educating today\u2019s young women.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194778\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"194778\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/International-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/International-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Ambassador Doria Rosen delivers the keynote speech on Friday, March 13, at Pohnpei\u2019s celebration of International Women\u2019s Day. (U.S. EMBASSY KOLONIA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-194778\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Ambassador Doria Rosen delivers the keynote speech on Friday, March 13, at Pohnpei\u2019s celebration of International Women\u2019s Day. (U.S. EMBASSY KOLONIA)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen played an important role in traditional Pohnpei and they remain just as important today. Women are half of the population, and if they are not fully participating in society, then half of the nation\u2019s natural resources are being wasted. When women fully participate in all aspects of society the country will see stronger economic growth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After her remarks she enjoyed visiting with the local women and watched dances performed by representatives of each of the Women\u2019s Groups from around the island. <em>(U.S. Embassy Kolonia)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Ambassador Doria Rosen presented the keynote remarks on Friday, March 13, at Pohnpei\u2019s celebration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":194778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3225,2469,190,320],"class_list":["post-194777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ambassador-doria-rosen","tag-international-women","tag-natural","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194777","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=194777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}