{"id":381298,"date":"2022-12-09T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=381298"},"modified":"2022-12-09T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:06:36","slug":"growing-surfing-community-in-nmi-should-be-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/growing-surfing-community-in-nmi-should-be-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Growing surfing community  in NMI should be supported\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381300\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Sheila-J.-Babauta-mug-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-381300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Sheila-J.-Babauta-mug-2-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheila J. Babauta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Sheila J. Babauta (D-Saipan), who chairs the Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives, has noted a growing number of surfers in the community and she encouraged lawmakers to support them.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta shared during a House session last week that the first ever surfing competition in the CNMI is happening on Saipan this Saturday and Sunday at the Obyan Beach from 9am to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a collaborative effort. I think it\u2019s something new that\u2019s being organized, but there has been a growing surfing community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta encouraged her fellow House representatives to be at the event as a show of support for members of the community who are close to nature and the ocean. \u201cThat\u2019s a really important part of our quality of life here,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s event, dubbed as \u201cBoogie Down at Obyan,\u201d will see 16 of the best bodyboarders in the Marianas compete. The organizing committee includes venue director Joe Villacrusis, tournament director Edward Manibusan, and beach marshal David Cabrera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Sheila J. Babauta (D-Saipan), who chairs the Natural Resources Committee in the House of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":381299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-381298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381298","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}