{"id":221531,"date":"2016-02-24T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=221531"},"modified":"2016-02-24T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:00:33","slug":"guam-speaker-welcomes-ph-president-aquino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-speaker-welcomes-ph-president-aquino\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam speaker welcomes PH President Aquino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-221531 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\/guam-speaker-welcomes-ph-president-aquino\/speaker-1\/'>Speaker-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-221532'>\n\t\t\t\tGuam Speaker Judith T. Won Pat welcomes Philippine President Benigno C. Aquino at the A.B. Won Pat International Airport after the latter made a brief stopover in the U.S. territory after attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in California. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><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\/guam-speaker-welcomes-ph-president-aquino\/speaker-2\/'>Speaker-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-221533'>\n\t\t\t\tPhilippine President Benigno C. Aquino poses with Guam officials led by Gov. Eddie Calvo and Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio and Philippine Consulate Consul Consulate General Marc De Borja. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam<\/strong>\u2014President Benigno Aquino made a brief stop in Guam early Friday morning upon his return to the Philippines after attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in California.<\/p>\n<p>He was welcomed by Speaker Judith T. Won Pat, Senator Dennis Rodriguez, Jr., Senator Mary Camacho Torres, and Senator James Espaldon\u2014together with Gov. Eddie Calvo and Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio, Chief Justice Robert J. Torres, and Phicippine Consulate General Marciano De Borja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor to have the opportunity to welcome President Aquino,\u201d stated Won Pat.\u00a0 \u201cHe is very humble, and in the short time that I was able to speak with him, he conveyed a deep sense of dedication to serving his people. I certainly hope to work with the government of the Philippines in building our island\u2019s ties. I am grateful to Philippine Consulate Consul General Mark De Borja and his office for the invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014President Benigno Aquino made a brief stop in Guam early Friday morning upon his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":221532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63,9876,9877,5506],"class_list":["post-221531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-philippines","tag-president-aquino","tag-senator-dennis-rodriguez","tag-won-pat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221531","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=221531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}