{"id":297109,"date":"2019-04-09T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=297109"},"modified":"2019-04-09T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:06:35","slug":"new-book-highlights-agnes-mcphetres-role-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/new-book-highlights-agnes-mcphetres-role-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"New book highlights Agnes McPhetres\u2019 role in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public is invited to attend the launch for Ivan Propst\u2019s new book on Thursday, April 11, from 5pm to 7pm at the American Memorial Park Visitor\u2019s Center Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Propst\u2019s new book is titled Perseverance and Grit: The Contributions of Agnes Manglona McPhetres to Education Across the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a brief presentation by Propst with questions and answers to follow as well as the book signing by Agnes McPhetres and Propst. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Book-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Book-pix-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-297110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McPhetres, the current chief executive officer of the Northern Marianas Technical Institute, is a former president of the Northern Marianas College.<\/p>\n<p>Publication of the book was made possible by support from the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, a nonprofit, private corporation funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public is invited to attend the launch for Ivan Propst\u2019s new book on Thursday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":297110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-297109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297109","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=297109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}