{"id":259949,"date":"2017-09-11T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=259949"},"modified":"2017-09-11T06:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:06:47","slug":"torres-appoints-marciano-mva-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-appoints-marciano-mva-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres appoints Marciano to MVA board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres appointed Gordon Marciano to serve on the Marianas Visitors Authority board of directors. <\/p>\n<p>His appointment requires the advice and consent of the Senate. If confirmed, he will serve a four-year term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGordon has been a very active member of our tourism industry, particularly within our Japanese market. Maintaining the historical importance of our Japanese market has been a priority of mine, and Gordon\u2019s years of knowledge and experience within that sector will help us sustain that goal further. I am confident in his ability to contribute to the ongoing success of MVA and its outreach to our tourism markets,\u201d Torres said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly grateful for the opportunity to serve our people of Saipan and the Marianas. I thank Gov. Torres for this opportunity, and I look forward to continue supporting our tourism industry in this position,\u201d Marciano said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres appointed Gordon Marciano to serve on the Marianas Visitors&#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":[3774,43,212,67],"class_list":["post-259949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-gordon-marciano","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-mva","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259949","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=259949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}