{"id":269393,"date":"2018-02-05T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=269393"},"modified":"2018-02-05T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:06:09","slug":"pathway-lampposts-get-first-hanging-flower-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pathway-lampposts-get-first-hanging-flower-baskets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathway lampposts get first of hanging flower baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_269394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269394\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MOS-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MOS-pix-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The island\u2019s first hanging flower basket was installed Thursday by the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office with help from its many partners. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office has installed the first hanging flower baskets along Beach Road, with the hope that these flowering baskets will become fixtures. <\/p>\n<p>The flower baskets have finally arrived from Japan and are being prepared for installation. The baskets are supposed to be part of the Island Flower project, which is intended to carpet the CNMI with flowering blooms.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office has been working on procuring the baskets since November last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, he is excited. \u201cI feel great. This has been my dream, to put up flower baskets, and we are finally realizing it with our partner, [the Marianas Visitors Authority].\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Apatang said the first few flower baskets they installed Thursday are considered test runs and if they turn out as the office hopes, they will install the rest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we\u2019re putting up at least five to test it out. We\u2019ll wait 10 days and see how it\u2019ll come out and, after that, we will put up the rest,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Apatang\u2019s office is currently looking for sponsors to adopt a lamppost and maintain their designated flower basket. <\/p>\n<p>Interested individuals can visit the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office along Beach Road to register as sponsors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office has installed the first hanging flower baskets along Beach Road, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":269394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[160,17727,1507,492],"class_list":["post-269393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-beach-road","tag-island-flower","tag-saipan-mayor","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269393","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}