{"id":205635,"date":"2015-07-02T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=205635"},"modified":"2015-07-02T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T20:00:05","slug":"guam-residents-seal-incorrectly-depicts-traditional-canoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-residents-seal-incorrectly-depicts-traditional-canoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam residents: Seal incorrectly depicts traditional canoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AGANA, Guam<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Nearly 100 years after a woman named Helen Paul was inspired by a local artist and designed the flag and seal of Guam, some residents are saying that it incorrectly depicts an important cultural artifact.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Daily News reports that a number of people on the island territory say the flying proa\u2014a cornerstone of Guam\u2019s seafaring traditions\u2014is drawn incorrectly on the seal.<\/p>\n<p>One resident calling attention to the problem is Jose Martinez, secretary of Traditions Affirming our Seafaring Ancestry. He wants to see the flag fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez says a canoe shown in the seal is drawn incorrectly, with the outrigger on the wrong side. He says if the canoe were built that way, it wouldn\u2019t sail.<\/p>\n<p>He compares it to drawing a car with triangle wheels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGANA, Guam (AP)\u2014Nearly 100 years after a woman named Helen Paul was inspired by a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5797,51,5798,5799],"class_list":["post-205635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agana","tag-guam","tag-helen-paul","tag-jose-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205635","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}