{"id":217423,"date":"2015-12-28T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=217423"},"modified":"2015-12-28T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:00:25","slug":"mochitsuki-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochitsuki Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-217423 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival\/img_7462\/'>IMG_7462<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-217441'>\n\t\t\t\tA local made up of high school students entertain the crowd that attended last Saturday\u2019s Mochitsuki Festival at the Paseo de Marianas in Garapan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure 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