{"id":229454,"date":"2016-06-07T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=229454"},"modified":"2016-06-07T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:06:15","slug":"saipan-student-commits-west-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-student-commits-west-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan student commits to West Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229455\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Yuan-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Yuan-pix-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ou Yuan \u201cOwen\u201d Zhi, who recently graduated from Agape Christian School, has committed to the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229455\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ou Yuan \u201cOwen\u201d Zhi, who recently graduated from Agape Christian School, has committed to the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ou Yuan \u201cOwen\u201d Zhi, who recently graduated from Agape Christian School. has committed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, which only accepts 9.5 percent of applicants. <\/p>\n<p>Zhi told Saipan Tribune that he learned of the news in April, after completing a program as a high school senior at the Air Force Academy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Kilili Sablan called me and told me the good news,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>When asked how he felt upon receiving the news, Zhi said: \u201cI am truly thankful for those who helped me this far. Give the highest credit to the love and support from my family, school, teachers, my classmates, and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his high school career, Zhi remained active in speech and debate, math, and sports competitions. He also spent many hours volunteering at the American Memorial Park and Chinese Association of Saipan. <\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cOur school&#8217;s caring rules and extracurricular activities mold our students character both physically and mentally, which created versatility in students.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the rigorous coursework at West Point, Zhi explained that he will train for his basic training in June, review for academic placement tests, and contact alumni to learn more. <\/p>\n<p>Zhi noted, \u201cI feel great to serve the others; to give is better than to receive. I want to learn in college without considering the financial difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ou Yuan \u201cOwen\u201d Zhi, who recently graduated from Agape Christian School. has committed to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2270,10416,11902,1179],"class_list":["post-229454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agape-christian-school","tag-air-force-academy","tag-congressman-kilili-sablan","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229454","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}