{"id":214227,"date":"2015-11-11T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=214227"},"modified":"2015-11-11T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:06:29","slug":"atalig-wins-2nd-place-in-sengebau-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/atalig-wins-2nd-place-in-sengebau-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Atalig wins 2nd place in Sengebau poetry contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_214228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ESFDB-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ESFDB-pix-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja students Jeremy John Atalig II and Angelo S. Lucero. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja students Jeremy John Atalig II and Angelo S. Lucero. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Northern Marianas Humanities Council\u2019s 12th Annual Valentine N. Sengebau Poetry Competition was held on Oct. 29, 2015, at Charley\u2019s, Pacific Islands Club on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja participated in the Junior Division, where junior high\/middle school students must recite a poem from Sengebau\u2019s book, Microchild. The poem must be from the Cultural Identity, Politics, or Images sections, and students were asked to give a 1- to 3-minute introduction explaining why he or she chose the specific poem.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-grader Angelo Lucero and seventh-grader Jeremy John Atalig II represented Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja after winning their school level recital event.<\/p>\n<p>Competing for the first time, Atalig came second\u2014a strong showing that could have given Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja its third win in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI praised Angelo and Jeremy for their dedication and hard work they put in to defend our title,\u201d said administrator-principal Carmen H. Atalig. \u201cWe have good reason to be proud of our student representatives of the Luta community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year I will bring back the perpetual plaque where it belongs,\u201d said Atalig, the son of proud parents Jeremy and Imelda H. Atalig. <em>(ESFDB)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council\u2019s 12th Annual Valentine N. Sengebau Poetry Competition was held on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":214228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8118,8119,1677,8120],"class_list":["post-214227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cultural-identity","tag-eighth-grader-angelo-lucero","tag-eskuelan-san-francisco","tag-junior-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214227","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=214227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}