{"id":232061,"date":"2016-07-13T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=232061"},"modified":"2016-07-13T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:06:24","slug":"71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"71st Liberation Day Festivities Closing Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOS BY JON PEREZ<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-232061 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\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/libday-pix-1-2\/'>LibDay-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-232062'>\n\t\t\t\tSaipan Mayor David M. Apatang, left, gets flowers and leis from performers as an early birthday gift last Saturday at the closing ceremony of the 71st Liberation Day Festivities at the Garapan Fishing Base. Apatang celebrated his birthday the following day, Sunday. 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Apatang, and Royal Court Queen Christine Roque for a group photo after receiving the third place check.\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\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/libday-pix-6-2\/'>LibDay-pix-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-232067'>\n\t\t\t\tA representative from the Papago Familian Lancheros receives the second place check in behalf of their group.\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\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/libday-pix-7-2\/'>LibDay-pix-7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-232068'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Visitors Authority managing director Chris Concepcion and Special Projects manager Martin Duenas, holding check, display the $4,000 after their agency ruled the float competition.\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\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/libday-pix-8-2\/'>LibDay-pix-8<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-232069'>\n\t\t\t\tPolynesian dancers closed out the night\u2019s performances.\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\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/libday-pix-9-2\/'>LibDay-pix-9<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-232070'>\n\t\t\t\tFireworks lit up the sky for 20 minutes.\n\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\/71st-liberation-day-festivities-closing-ceremony\/libday-pix-10-2\/'>LibDay-pix-10<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-232071'>\n\t\t\t\tFloat competition chair Joe Palacios announces the winners.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOS BY JON PEREZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":232062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotogalleria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232061","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}