{"id":382555,"date":"2022-12-30T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=382555"},"modified":"2022-12-30T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:01:07","slug":"return-of-full-time-interscholastic-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/return-of-full-time-interscholastic-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of full-time interscholastic sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_382534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382534\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/PSS-pixwb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/PSS-pixwb.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-382534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six-time\u00a0Public School System Girls High School Volleyball League champions Grace Christian Academy poses for a photo with their trophy and medals after their championship game against Saipan International School last Oct. 22 at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. (LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>School year 2022-2023 saw the return of soccer moms\u2014and stage dads who always know better than the referees\u2014with the resumption of full-time interscholastic sports.<\/p>\n<p>Two years of stop-and-go leagues that sometimes were reduced to tournaments due to COVID-19 became things of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from futbal (as the rest of the world calls it), interscholastic sports that made their uninterrupted comebacks this year included volleyball, basketball, badminton, and cross country.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the credit goes to Public School System Athletic Program director Nick Gross and his merry band of helpers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School year 2022-2023 saw the return of soccer moms\u2014and stage dads who always know better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":382533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382555","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}