{"id":272674,"date":"2018-03-27T06:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=272674"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:06:49","slug":"taste-marianas-return-amp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/taste-marianas-return-amp\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of the Marianas to return to AMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_272675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272675\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Taste-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Taste-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-272675\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of the 18th Annual Taste of the Marianas International Food Festival &amp; Beer Garden. The 20th Annual Taste of the Marianas will be held every Saturday during May 2018 Tourism Month beginning at 6pm at American Memorial Park. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 20th Annual Taste of the Marianas International Food Festival &amp; Beer Garden will return to American Memorial Park this year. <\/p>\n<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority signature event will be held every Saturday evening on Saipan in May in celebration of Tourism Month. <\/p>\n<p>The MVA has confirmed over 20 food and beverage vendors for the event, which features international cuisine at affordable prices from local hotels and restaurant vendors, non-stop live entertainment on the main stage, nightly contests on the secondary stage, and arts and crafts sales. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taste committee has been meeting for several weeks now, and we are so happy to be able to bring the event back to American Memorial Park this year,\u201d said MVA Community Projects specialist and event coordinator Ray Villagomez. \u201cAs one of the most popular festivals in the Marianas, Taste again aims to serve up a full, fun, and delicious month of Tourism Month celebration in May.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The festival will be held from 6pm to 10pm each Saturday (closing at 11pm on the final night). (MVA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th Annual Taste of the Marianas International Food Festival &amp; Beer Garden will return&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":272675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268,602,18153,894],"class_list":["post-272674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-memorial-park","tag-amp","tag-ray-villagomez","tag-tourism-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272674","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=272674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}