{"id":251682,"date":"2017-05-05T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=251682"},"modified":"2017-05-05T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:00:49","slug":"jkpl-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jkpl-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"JKPL celebrates Cinco de Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251687\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Cinco-de-Mayo-pix-300x169.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Celina Foreman, Maria Crisostomo, and Rose Ulloa have their picture taken in the Mexican-themed room of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library. (Bea Cabrera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cinco de Mayo, a celebration of Mexican heritage, wades ashore in the CNMI today, with the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library hosting two parties\u2014one for children and another for the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p>The library\u2019s first party today, May 5, is open to infants and toddlers from 10:30am onwards. The second one tomorrow, May 6, is open to everyone. It also starts at 10:30am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are celebrating Cinco de Mayo because a lot of [children] are not aware of other countries and cultures so we decided to bring it here,\u201d said JKPL librarian Rose Ulloa. \u201cWe want [children] to know about Mexico and this event will help them know about Mexico\u2019s people, culture, music, food and family life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year that the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library is celebrating Cinco de Mayo. <\/p>\n<p>Celina Foreman, another librarian in the JKPL children\u2019s area, said they spent two-and-a-half weeks planning and gathering props \u201cbecause it is our first time to present something like this for the children. We had the support of our co-workers in bringing props.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In honor of the occasion, the children\u2019s section of the library is filled with colorful flaglets, Mexican hats, and books about Mexico.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe wanted a Mexican fiesta feel and we will introduce Mexican dances, songs, costumes, and videos. Building curiosity with children is a fun thing because they really want to come and learn more about it,\u201d Ulloa added. <strong>(Bea Cabrera)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinco de Mayo, a celebration of Mexican heritage, wades ashore in the CNMI today, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":251687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7421,26,412,676],"class_list":["post-251682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youngstyle","tag-celina-foreman","tag-cnmi","tag-jkpl","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251682","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=251682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}