{"id":264318,"date":"2017-11-13T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264318"},"modified":"2017-11-13T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:00:02","slug":"bordallo-mourns-passing-ex-merizo-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bordallo-mourns-passing-ex-merizo-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordallo mourns passing of ex-Merizo mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) issued the following statement last week on the passing of former Merizo mayor Ignacio \u201cBuck\u201d Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply saddened by the passing of former Merizo Mayor Buck Cruz. Buck was a dear friend and a dedicated public servant for the people of Merizo and our entire island. As a survivor of the occupation of Guam during World War II, Buck was a member of Guam\u2019s greatest generation, and he served our country with distinction, attaining the rank of master gunnery sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a strong advocate for seniors, our environment, and culture, and I will always remember his leadership during my husband Ricky\u2019s administration. I join our entire community in mourning Mayor Buck Cruz\u2019s passing. I extend my condolences to his family and loved ones. He will be deeply missed but memory will live on through all who knew him.\u201d (PR) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) issued the following statement last week on the passing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[51,19024,1229,1589],"class_list":["post-264318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-guam","tag-ignacio-buck-cruz","tag-marine-corps","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264318","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=264318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}