{"id":246837,"date":"2017-02-20T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246837"},"modified":"2017-02-20T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:06:12","slug":"aldan-succumbs-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/aldan-succumbs-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldan succumbs to heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_246840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246840\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jerome-Aldan-mug.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-246840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Jerome-Aldan-mug-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jerome Kaipat Aldan\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246840\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Kaipat Aldan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Northern Islands Mayor Jerome Kaipat Aldan died early Saturday morning after collapsing outside J\u2019s Restaurant in Oleai.<\/p>\n<p>Aldan\u2019s common law wife said the doctors at the Commonwealth Health Center told her that he died from a massive heart attack, pending an autopsy. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said Aldan and a friend stepped out of J\u2019s Restaurant around 1:50am on Saturday after having a late dinner that was punctuated with jolly laughs over a bowl of soba. Moments later Aldan collapsed and was rushed to CHC.<\/p>\n<p>Aldan\u2019s Facebook page has been flooded with condolences and laudatory words for being a good leader and a good man.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan and Northern Islands chair Luis John \u201cL.J.\u201d Castro will be the acting mayor of the Northern Islands. <\/p>\n<p>Castro earlier told Saipan Tribune that he was actually supposed to become the acting mayor of the Northern Islands today, Monday, as Aldan was set to go on an off-island trip to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Castro will serve as acting mayor until Gov. Ralph DLG Torres names a replacement for Aldan.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the late governor Eloy S. Inos named Marian Deleon Guerrero Tudela as mayor of Saipan after the untimely passing of Saipan mayor Donald Glenn P. Flores.<\/p>\n<p>Since Flores died with less than half of his term remaining, Tudela as the second largest vote-getter during the election that Flores won, was offered the opportunity to serve as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>With that as precedent, Vicente Cruz Santos Jr., who finished second to Aldan in the 2015 general election, will be nominated by Torres to carry on Aldan\u2019s unfinished term.<\/p>\n<p>Evening rosary is being held at Aldan\u2019s mother\u2019s residence in upper MIHA housing at 7:30pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Islands Mayor Jerome Kaipat Aldan died early Saturday morning after collapsing outside J\u2019s Restaurant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[92,170,8582,38],"class_list":["post-246837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-commonwealth-health-center","tag-japan","tag-miha","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246837","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}