{"id":280275,"date":"2018-07-19T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280275"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:06:19","slug":"libday-queen-to-represent-saipan-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/libday-queen-to-represent-saipan-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"LibDay queen to represent Saipan in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_280288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280288\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LibDay-pix-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LibDay-pix-1-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberation Day Queen Brinae Jessilyn Cruz, middle, is set to represent the CNMI in Nagoya this August at the 20th Annual Nippon Domanakka Festival. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2018 Liberation Day queen is set to represent the Marianas in Nagoya, Japan this August. <\/p>\n<p>According to Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office will be sending Brinae Jessilyn Cruz to the 20th Annual Nippon Domannaka Festival along with the Liberation Day Royal Court chair Monique Boyer Sablan. The festival is believed to be the largest cultural festival in Nagoya. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be going to the cultural festival in Japan\u2026to participate in it with the MVA (Marianas Visitors Authority) and represent the CNMI,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Apatang said that he sends Liberation Day queens to the Domannaka Festival for the past few years because it allows them to get exposed to a different culture at a young age. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always send our queens to Japan to experience an international culture\u2026that&#8217;s one way to get experience and they also get to promote the CNMI with MVA\u2026that&#8217;s our main reason for sending them there,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Sablan, Cruz will serve as a youth ambassador of the CNMI during the Domannaka Festival that will last five days. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do this every year\u2026it\u2019s something that the mayor\u2019s office gets invited to and it&#8217;s a good opportunity for him to showcase the new Liberation Day queen and give her the chance to travel off-island to represent the island as kind of like an ambassador,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Sablan believes that this is a great opportunity to have Cruz expose herself to greater opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great opportunity\u2026and this gives candidates something to look forward to\u2026 and one thing about these girls is that they are very young so it&#8217;s a great opportunity for them to get out there,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Sablan and Cruz are scheduled to leave this Aug. 24 to attend the five-day festival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Liberation Day queen is set to represent the Marianas in Nagoya, Japan this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":280288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22009,26,170,21574],"class_list":["post-280275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-brinae-jessilyn-cruz","tag-cnmi","tag-japan","tag-monique-boyer-sablan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280275","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=280275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}