{"id":243082,"date":"2016-12-22T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=243082"},"modified":"2016-12-22T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:00:08","slug":"saipan-da-give-gifts-christmas-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-da-give-gifts-christmas-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan-da to give gifts on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_243088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243088\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Saipan-da-pix-300x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan-da backpacks will be presented in person by Saipan-da to qualified children arriving on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2016. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just like Santa and his helpers, Saipan-da will be on duty Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its annual Happy Children in Paradise campaign and promotions for the holiday season, the Marianas Visitors Authority will again spread holiday cheer by giving away Saipan-da backpacks to visiting children arriving at the Francisco C. Ada\/Saipan International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>All passengers arriving on Dec. 24 and 25, 2016, will be greeted by Saipan-da and two Chamorritas in island attire. Children ages 12 and younger will receive backpacks of the character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like Santa, Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year for Saipan-da,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cThis year\u2019s backpack is even more loveable than ever, due to the 2016 design that makes it seem like a stuffed animal. And like Santa, we find that people of all ages enjoy Saipan-da, probably because he is also big, jolly, huggable, and give gifts!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MVA previously gave away over 10,000 backpacks during the summer phase of Happy Children in Paradise from July through September 2016.  Saipan-da is a well-known, panda-like character well-received by children from all the NMI\u2019s source markets and designed to keep the destination name in front of potential visitors from Asian countries.<strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like Santa and his helpers, Saipan-da will be on duty Christmas Eve and Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":243088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1416,8920,212,67],"class_list":["post-243082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-christmas-day","tag-christmas-eve","tag-mva","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243082","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=243082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}