{"id":39346,"date":"2014-06-20T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=39346"},"modified":"2014-06-20T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:00:02","slug":"happy-children-paradise-returns-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/happy-children-paradise-returns-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Happy Children in Paradise\u2019 returns on July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s longeststanding promotional campaigns, \u201cHappy Children in Paradise,\u201d returns to put smiles on the faces of visiting children beginning on July 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39349\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"39349\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Happy-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Happy-pix-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The 15th year edition of the Saipan-da backpack for 2014. The Marianas Visitors Authority anticipates distributing 16,000 of the backpacks to visiting children this year as part of its \u201cHappy Children in Paradise\u201d campaign. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-39349\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 15th year edition of the Saipan-da backpack for 2014. The Marianas Visitors Authority anticipates distributing 16,000 of the backpacks to visiting children this year as part of its \u201cHappy Children in Paradise\u201d campaign. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The campaign provides Saipan-da backpacks to all visiting children ages 11 and younger as a souvenir of their visit to the Northern Mariana Islands during the summer months and at Christmas time. The MVA expects to give away approximately 16,000 of the 15th anniversary backpacks to happy kids this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaipan-da is a popular figure in a couple of our markets, especially Japan. He is featured on national and regional television, gets his own invitations to special events, and does a great job of helping potential travelers remember the destination of \u2018Saipan,\u2019\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cWhen we\u2019re competing at international trade shows or other events with over 100 other vacation destinations, Saipan-da helps keep our islands in people\u2019s minds. Both children and adults are drawn to Saipan-da!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The summer campaign will run though Sept. 30, 2014.  Participating hotels will distribute coupons to qualified guests during the period.  The coupons will be redeemable at the DFS Galleria Saipan-da Corner, where a live action Saipan-da will greet guests and be available for picture taking.<\/p>\n<p>The name Saipan-da is a triple play on words in English and Japanese: \u201csai\u201d means rhinoceros, the panda bear, and the destination name Saipan. The whole word Saipan-da! means \u201cSaipan is it!\u201d in Japanese, or \u201cSaipan\u2019s the place to be!\u201d <em>(MVA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s longeststanding promotional campaigns, \u201cHappy Children in Paradise,\u201d returns to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[170,212,121,133],"class_list":["post-39346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-japan","tag-mva","tag-northern-mariana-islands","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}