{"id":230086,"date":"2016-06-16T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=230086"},"modified":"2016-06-16T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:06:21","slug":"lets-celebrate-symbol-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-celebrate-symbol-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s celebrate the symbol of liberation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230087\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LibDay-pix.jpg.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LibDay-pix.jpg-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Public Safety posted the colors during the 2016 Liberation Day Festivities opening ceremony held last Friday at the Garapan Fishing Base. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230087\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Public Safety posted the colors during the 2016 Liberation Day Festivities opening ceremony held last Friday at the Garapan Fishing Base. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang is encouraging the entire community to be always reminded of the importance of the 4th of July celebration every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to remind ourselves why we take time from our daily lives to celebrate the 4th of July. To many the [annual celebration] is a symbol of our liberation to the place we live today,\u201d said Apatang in his welcome remarks in last Friday\u2019s 2016 Liberation Day Carnival opening at the Garapan Fishing Base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t hear the bombs explode, the gunshots, or the prayers to end. We never thought that any moment our lives could end. Today, we hear loud, jolly, and mood-setting music,\u201d Apatang said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are lucky and that is why we celebrate it today, to give thanks to the men and women who sacrificed their lives to free others. To the Lord, who also helped in giving us the freedom,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Apatang said people should show compassion and respect as the community remembers the horrors of war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we celebrate the 71st year of liberation and freedom, we must always remember that we are still healing from the scars that cut so deep in someone\u2019s life, we must respect each other and be compassionate to one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain thank you, God bless, and let\u2019s have a cheerful, safe festivities, and celebration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberation Day celebration is a whole month of festivities and Skywalker Communications Group is happy to invite the community to partake of this wonderful event. Come by Garapan Fishing Base, 5pm-10pm everyday. <em>(Mackenzie Perez)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang is encouraging the entire community to be always reminded of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[281,5493,6065,3705],"class_list":["post-230086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-garapan-fishing-base","tag-liberation-day-carnival","tag-liberation-day-festivities","tag-skywalker-communications-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230086","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}