{"id":261941,"date":"2017-10-09T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=261941"},"modified":"2017-10-09T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T20:00:08","slug":"help-find-stolen-ama-napu-canoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/help-find-stolen-ama-napu-canoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Help find stolen ama of Napu canoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261945\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/napupix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napu\u2019s red canoe is missing its ama and the club is seeking the public\u2019s help to locate the stolen floater. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Napu Outrigger Canoe Club president Ponce Rasa is asking the public\u2019s help to locate the ama stolen from the club\u2019s canoe at the Kilili Beach last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling the public for their assistance in helping us find the ama. If they have any information, contact us or to stay anonymous, contact the authorities,\u201d Rasa said in an email sent to Saipan Tribune yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>An ama is an outrigger float. Napu discovered its red canoe missing its ama yesterday morning when the club is preparing for the last long course race sanctioned by Northern Marianas National Paddling Sports Federation. Napu paddlers also joined the final tune-up sprints races last Saturday and the ama of the red canoe was still there. Then yesterday, Rasa said there was also an attempt to steal the ama of their other canoe (blue).<\/p>\n<p>Napu had already reported the theft incident to the Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Rasa is appealing to the public to help locate the ama, as Napu paddlers are in the final stages of their preparation for the 2017 Micro Cup, which will be held in Guam from Oct. 26 to 29.  The club will be sending a men\u2019s team and junior men\u2019s and women\u2019s squads to Guam.<\/p>\n<p>To reach Rasa or Napu, send email to napuoutriggercanoeclub@gmail. com.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, results of the weekend\u2019s sprints and long distance races were unavailable at press time and will be reported later this week. Besides Napu, other groups that joined the final tune-up for the Micro Cup were Marianas Outrigger Canoe, Saipan Paddling Club, and Marianas Pacific Paddlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napu Outrigger Canoe Club president Ponce Rasa is asking the public\u2019s help to locate the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":261945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,15243,13422,18607],"class_list":["post-261941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-guam","tag-marianas-outrigger-canoe","tag-micro-cup","tag-ponce-rasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261941","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}