{"id":280852,"date":"2018-07-26T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280852"},"modified":"2018-07-26T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:06:39","slug":"torres-soca-moved-to-aug-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-soca-moved-to-aug-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres SOCA moved to Aug. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new date has been set for Gov. Ralph DLG Torres\u2019 State of the Commonwealth Address.<\/p>\n<p>During a session yesterday afternoon, the Senate adopted Senate Joint Resolution 20-06 that sets the date of Torres\u2019 annual address on Aug. 16, 2018, at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center at 10am.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Sixto K. Igisomar (R-Saipan) was absent from the session.<\/p>\n<p>The Torres administration previously announced that the address would be held on July 27, 2018, and then moved it to Aug. 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the members had scheduling problems,\u201d said Senate President Arnold I. Palacios (R-Saipan) yesterday. \u201cWe have some senators that would be off-island, so we set it on Aug. 16.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palacios noted, however, that the availability of the 20 members of the House of Representatives would still be considered. The House would have to concur with S.J.R. 20-06 before the Aug. 16, 2018 date is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 Commonwealth address was held at the same venue on March 31, 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new date has been set for Gov. Ralph DLG Torres\u2019 State of the Commonwealth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,6214],"class_list":["post-280852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-house","tag-senate-joint-resolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280852","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}