{"id":424821,"date":"2024-11-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424821"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Saddened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Saddened\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear the news about the closure of the <em>Saipan Tribune<\/em>. I wanted to take a moment to express my sincerest <em>si yu&#8217;us ma&#8217;\u00e5se<\/em> for\u00a0<em>Saipan Tribune&#8217;s<\/em> dedication to reporting the latest news in the CNMI, always with fairness and impartiality. More importantly, I am grateful for the way <em>Saipan Tribune<\/em> provided a platform for athletes to shine and, in some cases (like myself&#8230; LOL), gave them a voice to share their side of the story.<\/p>\n<p>In my family, we often joke that &#8220;it&#8217;s better to be on the backpage than the front page of the newspaper,&#8221; but\u00a0<em>Saipan Tribune&#8217;s<\/em> work made both pages equally valuable.<\/p>\n<p>I wish <em>Saipan Tribune<\/em>\u00a0staff the very best in their future endeavors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John &#8220;Shake and Bake&#8221; Sablan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>San Antonio (now in Guam)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PS<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days, when <em>Saipan Tribune<\/em> baptized ballers with cool nicknames. Now, the dart players get all the great names. Peace!<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9d1d55590cb89eb1be894c9d0070e339.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear the news about the closure of the Saipan Tribune. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424821","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}