{"id":313588,"date":"2019-12-09T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=313588"},"modified":"2019-12-09T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:06:51","slug":"statement-of-torres-and-palacios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/statement-of-torres-and-palacios\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Torres and Palacios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a day to reflect the progress we have made as a Commonwealth and to honor our islands\u2019 Catholic tradition of celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.<\/p>\n<p>We commemorate the beginning of a journey four decades ago in a school auditorium where a group of 39 leaders joined together under the idea of self-determination. With words of our preamble, \u201cWe the people of the Northern Mariana Islands,\u201d they launched our story\u2014our journey to the future we see today.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Constitution is the foundation of our government, and this \u201cembodiment of our traditions and hopes\u201d will continue to shape our work as we continue our islands\u2019 recovery, achieve our healthcare goals, expand educational opportunities for our students, and ensure economic prosperity for every single person who calls the Marianas home.<\/p>\n<p>From our families to yours, may all of you have a safe and restful Constitution Day weekend. Spend time with the people you know and love. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a day to reflect the progress we have made as a Commonwealth and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313588","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=313588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}