{"id":349900,"date":"2021-08-13T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349900"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T06:15:16","slug":"breaking-news-saipan-vegas-resort-shuts-down-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-saipan-vegas-resort-shuts-down-golf-course\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Saipan Vegas Resort shuts down golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Vegas Resort has closed, effective immediately, the Saipan Golf Course that they took over back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gus Noble, Saipan Vegas Resort consultant, the resort has no choice but to shut down the over 50-year-old course and lay off all the workers who maintain it due to the enactment of Saipan Local Law 22-6, which essentially imposes a local license fee on all electronic gaming devices on Saipan and poker amusement machines in the same e-gaming premises on the island on top of the existing similar amount of CNMI-wide fees imposed by current law.<\/p>\n<p>More information to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Vegas Resort has closed, effective immediately, the Saipan Golf Course that they took over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":333037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349900","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}