{"id":220704,"date":"2016-02-11T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T06:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220704"},"modified":"2016-02-11T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T06:08:35","slug":"tinian-chosen-as-divert-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tinian-chosen-as-divert-airfield\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Tinian chosen as divert airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Tinian as the preferred alternative for its divert airfield project in the CNMI.<br \/>\nThis follows years of protracted consultation with the local government, business community, and a environmental review process that prompted the U.S. Air Force to exclude fighter jets from the divert project.<br \/>\nRecently, U.S. Air Force leaders have advertised a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; option, to use both Saipan and Tinian airports, but that appears to be taken off the table.<br \/>\nThe Commonwealth Ports Authority have repeatedly reiterated its position that divert be sited on Tinian and not on Saipan.<br \/>\nA &#8220;Record of Decision&#8221; formalizing the military&#8217;s selection of a preferred alternative is expected in June. <strong>More details to follow<\/strong><em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Tinian as the preferred alternative for its divert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[418,56,26,200],"class_list":["post-220704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-air-force","tag-business-3","tag-cnmi","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220704","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}