{"id":241887,"date":"2016-12-06T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=241887"},"modified":"2016-12-06T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:06:30","slug":"christmas-marianas-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/christmas-marianas-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in the Marianas kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas tree decoration contest, caroling competition, and a parade and costume show kicked off the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s annual Christmas in the Marianas festival last Saturday at the Paseo de Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>MVA and PDM Promoters host this year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 schools participated in the Christmas tree decoration contest and a total of 19 schools participated in the caroling competition, all from various elementary schools, middle schools, and high school participants. A total of nine schools participated in the parade and costume show.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is our 17th year of hosting this event right in the heart of historic Garapan. The huge turnout on Saturday is a great sign that the holiday spirit is alive and well in the Commonwealth,\u201d said MVA managing director Chris Concepcion.<\/p>\n<p>He invites the public for activities at the Paseo de Marianas the next four Saturdays\u2014Dec. 10, 17, 23, and 30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas tree decoration contest, caroling competition, and a parade and costume show kicked off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2714,43,212,14600],"class_list":["post-241887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-chris-concepcion","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-mva","tag-saturdays-dec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241887","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}