{"id":357306,"date":"2021-12-08T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357306"},"modified":"2021-12-08T06:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:01:17","slug":"torres-statement-on-cnmi-constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-statement-on-cnmi-constitution-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres\u2019 statement on CNMI Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres on Tuesday issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Dec. 8, we celebrate Constitution Day and the continued progress we have made as a Commonwealth in political union with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, we also celebrate our islands\u2019 annual Catholic tradition of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver four decades ago, 39 leaders convened to develop the foundation of our government, beginning with words of our preamble, \u2018We the People of the Northern Mariana Islands.\u2019 In the present day, the Commonwealth Constitution remains the \u2018embodiment of our traditions and hopes,\u2019 especially as we continue to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, work to upgrade our infrastructure, increase educational opportunities for our students, and revitalize our economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish everyone in the CNMI a happy and safe Constitution Day.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres on Tuesday issued the following statement: \u201cThis Dec. 8, we celebrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":356240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357306","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\/357306","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=357306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}