{"id":309633,"date":"2019-10-09T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=309633"},"modified":"2019-10-09T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:00:23","slug":"the-actual-first-female-bts-canine-handler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-actual-first-female-bts-canine-handler\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018actual\u2019 first female BTS canine handler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see this article mentioning Leonora Aldan Blas as the CNMI\u2019s first and only brown tree snake canine handler.\u00a0 Were you not aware of Marja Onni, the \u201cactual\u201d first female canine handler? She retired several months ago, after many years of dedicated service, and she had been the BTS canine handler.\u00a0 Please give her credit where credit\u00a0is due.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Marchitti<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Homer, Alaska<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see this article mentioning Leonora Aldan Blas as the CNMI\u2019s first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":307441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1201,672],"class_list":["post-309633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-bts","tag-susan-marchitti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309633","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}