{"id":354420,"date":"2021-10-25T06:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=354420"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T20:02:39","slug":"wave-walk-roll-against-domestic-violence-draws-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wave-walk-roll-against-domestic-violence-draws-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wave, Walk &#038; Roll Against Domestic Violence\u2019 draws crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_354421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354421\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/walkandroll-pix-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the community participate in<br \/>Thursday\u2019s \u201cPurple Wave, Walk &amp; Roll Against<br \/>Domestic Violence\u201d at the NMI Museum Grounds. (Joshua Santos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NMI Museum grounds was teeming with people last Thursday evening that joined the wildly successful \u201cPurple Wave, Walk &amp; Roll Against Domestic Violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Northern Marianas Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, walk had a big turnout; Saipan Tribune was told by an event volunteer that over 450 people registered to participate, with many more not registering and joining in on the walk.<\/p>\n<p>The walk route began at NMI Museum grounds, crossed Middle Road, went around the Sugar King Park\/ Gold\u2019s Gym Saipan area, and circled back to NMI Museum grounds. <\/p>\n<p>After the walk, eventgoers participated in a \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of Domestic Violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These events were part of the NMCADSV\u2019s commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which was proclaimed in the CNMI with a signing ceremony at Saipan World Resort earlier this month. This year\u2019s DVAM theme is \u201cHealing Forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next event in the CNMI will be the \u201cLight of Unity\u201d on Oct. 23 at the Tun Kindo\u2019 Baseball Field on Rota, where the community will light up the field and commemorate the victims and survivors of domestic violence as well as those still going through domestic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NMI Museum grounds was teeming with people last Thursday evening that joined the wildly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":354422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354420","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\/354420","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}