{"id":246749,"date":"2017-02-18T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246749"},"modified":"2017-02-18T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:14:24","slug":"breaking-news-nislands-mayor-jerome-aldan-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-nislands-mayor-jerome-aldan-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: N. Islands Mayor Jerome Aldan dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Islands Mayor Jerome Kaipat Aldan died early this morning after collapsing due to an apparent heart attack at J\u2019s Restaurant in Oleai, according to Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council chair Luis \u201cL.J.\u201d Castro, who is now the acting mayor of the municipality.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5177\"><span id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5178\">Castro said he was actually supposed to become acting mayor of the Northern Islands <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span>, as Aldan was set to go on an off-island trip to Japan.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5179\"><span id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5180\">He is asking for the community\u2019s prayers to the family Aldan left behind. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5180\">Castro said that, like the entire island community, he is in shock with the untimely passing of Aldan, who he said was very energetic and always goes out on a limb to serve his constituents.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5181\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5412\">Castro said he will serve as acting mayor until Gov. Ralph DLG Torres <\/span><span id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5182\"><span id=\"m_-87885451985381678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487383607905_5413\">either\u00a0<\/span>names a replacement or a special election is held for Aldan\u2019s successor, whichever is prescribed in the CNMI Constitution.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Islands Mayor Jerome Kaipat Aldan died early this morning after collapsing due to an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[331,197,170,541],"class_list":["post-246749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-attack","tag-gualo-rai","tag-japan","tag-northern-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246749","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}