{"id":313713,"date":"2019-12-10T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=313713"},"modified":"2019-12-10T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:00:58","slug":"ex-saipan-resident-pens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-saipan-resident-pens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Saipan resident pens book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Shore, a long-time Saipan resident,\u00a0has just published his\u00a0first book, whats the point\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Shor lived on Saipan from 2003-2007 and taught filmmaking at the Northern Marianas College. He wrote and directed videos for the Visitors\u2019 Channel, public service announcements, and the night time soap opera State of Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>whats the point\u2026 is an illustrated coffee table rhyme book created expressly for children and adults. It is illustrated by noted filmmaker\u00a0Judy Spier,\u00a0along with\u00a0LeFan Tu. It can be ordered for holiday gifts at https:\/\/www.xlibris.com\/en\/bookdetails\/803285-whats-the-point. According to a press release, the book is dedicated \u201cto anyone who has loved and lost and learned to love again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shor lives now in New York City with his wife Jie Hua (who he met on Saipan) and their daughter Fan. Since leaving Saipan, Shor has acted in TV shows such as Blue Bloods, Bull, and Jessica Jones, in indie films, as well as on stage in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. He said he misses Saipan dearly and plans to visit in the near future.<strong>\u00a0(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Shore, a long-time Saipan resident,\u00a0has just published his\u00a0first book, whats the point\u2026 Shor lived&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313713","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=313713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}