{"id":204501,"date":"2015-06-18T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=204501"},"modified":"2015-06-18T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T20:00:54","slug":"mau-a-pule-presentation-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mau-a-pule-presentation-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mau a Pule presentation tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public is invited to a presentation by visiting Samoan scholar Dr. Malama Meleisea which begins at 6pm tonight, June 18, at the Visitors Center Theater, American Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204505\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"204505\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mau-pix-Meleisea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mau-pix-Meleisea-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meleisea\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-204505\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meleisea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meleisea\u2019s presentation will cover the Mau a Pule, the indigenous Samoan resistance movement organized against German colonial rule in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>This movement, led by the orator Lauaki, resulted in the exile of ten chiefs and their families to Saipan in 1909.<\/p>\n<p>Meleisea is the director for the Center for Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa.  He has published books and articles on Samoa and Pacific history.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is a part of the \u201cSamoan Exiles on Saipan\u201d project sponsored by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council.  It is open to the public and free of charge. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public is invited to a presentation by visiting Samoan scholar Dr. Malama Meleisea which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":204505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268,4892,5502],"class_list":["post-204501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-memorial-park","tag-malama-meleisea","tag-visitors-center-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204501","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=204501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}