{"id":295378,"date":"2019-03-12T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295378"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:55:58","slug":"breaking-news-concepcion-resigns-as-mva-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-concepcion-resigns-as-mva-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Concepcion resigns as MVA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Attao Concepcion resigned today, Tuesday, as managing director of the Marianas Visitors Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a fun ride [but] I\u2019m tired,\u201d Concepcion told MVA board of directors during the board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion discussed more details about his decision to resign during the executive session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MVA board chair Marian Aldan-Pierce later said in an interview the MVA board members were shocked but reluctantly accepted Concepcion\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the many accomplishments that Concepcion had during his term was to secure direct air service from Japan by Skymark Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion became the managing director in April 2016. His resignation will be effective April 12, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Attao Concepcion resigned today, Tuesday, as managing director of the Marianas Visitors Authority. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":295379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,94],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-295378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-headlines","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295378","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}