{"id":233967,"date":"2016-08-10T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=233967"},"modified":"2016-08-10T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:00:48","slug":"sis-gives-first-merit-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-gives-first-merit-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS gives its first Merit Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233973\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SIS-pix.jpg-295x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix Gross is the first Merit Scholarship winner at Saipan International School for 2016-17. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to Phoenix Gross, the first Merit Scholarship winner at Saipan International School for 2016-17. <\/p>\n<p>Merit scholarships are awarded to students demonstrating excellence in one or more of the following areas\u2014academics, athletics, or achievement. <\/p>\n<p>Gross has proven an outstanding student in all three of these areas. She has won several academic awards in her previous school, is a strong member of multiple sports teams and is a budding young musician. Gross will be joined at SIS by her two sisters, Victoria in grade 7, and Beatrice, who will be joining the school\u2019s new Kindergarten 3-5 program. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Phoenix Gross, the first Merit Scholarship winner at Saipan International School for 2016-17&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":233973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12858,12859,1623,699],"class_list":["post-233967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-merit-scholarship","tag-phoenix-gross","tag-saipan-international-school","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233967","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=233967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}