{"id":229886,"date":"2016-06-14T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=229886"},"modified":"2016-06-14T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:00:53","slug":"gaming-booths-launched-successfully-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gaming-booths-launched-successfully-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming booths launched successfully on opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229887\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gaming.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gaming-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Young and young at heart took turns playing in the gaming booths at the 2016 Liberation Day grounds. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young and young at heart took turns playing in the gaming booths at the 2016 Liberation Day grounds. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After months of preparation and hard work, the 2016 CNMI Liberation Day Festivities is officially underway. <\/p>\n<p>Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, Skywalker Communications Group president Dr. Bo Hu, Liberation Day Non-Profit president Louis Rodgers, 2016 Liberation Day Committee chair Chris Leon Guerrero, Rev. Fr. Ryan Jimenez, 2015 Miss CNMI Liberation Queen Zolenska Marie Rios Yaroitemal and her Royal Court, and Lady Dianne Torres officially opened the festival grounds with the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>With the experience gained from organizing and participating in last year\u2019s CNMI Liberation Day Festivities, Skywalker Communications Group was even more determined to bring something new for this year. \u201cWe wanted to provide more for the kids to enjoy, \u201c explained Rose Ada-Hocog, public relations manager for Skywalker Communications Group, said \u201cWe believe that a family event should be an event that has something for both parents and children to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skywalker Communications unveiled a total of 11 game booths that featured games such as Angry Bird, Balloon Darts, Turtle Ring Toss, Archery, among others and they immediately became instant hits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe excitement on the children\u2019s faces when they arrived on the grounds and saw the games was priceless,\u201d said Levonne Pangelinan, head of the games and volunteers committee. \u201cWe have kids, young adults, and adults lining up to play the games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have parents helping their little ones play the games. It may be unsaid, but it is seen how they are bonding through the games and that in itself is enough to say that it is a successful event,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of preparation and hard work, the 2016 CNMI Liberation Day Festivities is officially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":229887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[163,4282,12001,3705],"class_list":["post-229886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kids","tag-liberation-day-committee","tag-louis-rodgers","tag-skywalker-communications-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229886","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=229886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}