{"id":243694,"date":"2017-01-04T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=243694"},"modified":"2017-01-04T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:00:26","slug":"mochitsuki-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mochitsuki-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochitsuki Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-243694 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\/mochitsuki-festival-2\/1-41\/'>1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-243729'>\n\t\t\t\tA group known as \u201cMarianas Ukulele\u201d performs for the crowd during the last day of the Christmas in the Marianas and the Mochitsuki Festival last Dec. 30, 2016, at the Paseo de Marianas in 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