{"id":250785,"date":"2017-04-24T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=250785"},"modified":"2017-04-24T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T20:00:15","slug":"ex-rota-councilman-dies-gunshot-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-rota-councilman-dies-gunshot-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Rota councilman dies from gunshot wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rota Municipal councilman Kevin Taimanao Atalig died of gunshot wound at his house in Songsong Village on Rota last Friday morning, Saipan Tribune learned. <\/p>\n<p>It is not clear yet whether it was a self-inflicted wound or an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Public Safety acting spokesman Sgt. Jason Tarkong confirmed that Atalig passed away, but stated he has not details yet as of yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a friend of mine. He\u2019s a great entertainer,\u201d Tarkong said.<\/p>\n<p>A singer, Atalig was awarded as Local Artist of the Year during the 15thAnnual Governor\u2019s Arts and 3rd Annual Humanities Award in November 1999. <\/p>\n<p>Atalig served as Rota Municipal councilman in the 1990s. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Teresita A. Santos (R-Rota) said she will introduce a resolution honoring Atalig for his contributions to the Commonwealth as a councilman and as a performing artist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rota Municipal councilman Kevin Taimanao Atalig died of gunshot wound at his house in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16461,215,9942,13741],"class_list":["post-250785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kevin-taimanao-atalig","tag-public-safety","tag-rota-municipal","tag-songsong-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250785","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}