{"id":245624,"date":"2017-02-02T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=245624"},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:00:19","slug":"bordallo-urges-defense-secretary-visit-guam-trip-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bordallo-urges-defense-secretary-visit-guam-trip-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordallo urges Defense secretary  to visit Guam during trip to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) wrote to Secretary of Defense James Mattis to request that he include Guam in his upcoming trip to the Asia-Pacific region. The Department of Defense announced that Mattis will visit Japan and South Korea during his first trip abroad as secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am pleased that Secretary Mattis recognizes the importance of the Asia-Pacific region and is making his first trip abroad as Defense secretary to meet with our allies and partners in the region. I hope that he will consider including a visit to Guam in his travel plans to gain a firsthand understanding of the unique contributions our island and our people make to our national security. Guam is a critical component of the U.S. strategic posture in the region. I hope that Secretary Mattis will take this opportunity to visit Guam and express the administration\u2019s commitment to the Marine realignment.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) wrote to Secretary of Defense James Mattis to request&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[171,51,15371,1589],"class_list":["post-245624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-asia","tag-guam","tag-secretary-mattis","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245624","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=245624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}