{"id":42941,"date":"2014-07-22T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=42941"},"modified":"2014-07-22T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:00:21","slug":"nbg-test-giant-voice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nbg-test-giant-voice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"NBG to test its Giant Voice system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SANTA RITA, Guam<\/strong>\u2014U.S. Naval Base Guam will conduct a test of its broadcast system, commonly known as the Giant Voice, at 8am and 6:30pm on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>During this test, the national anthem and evening colors will be played in preparation for its official launch.<\/p>\n<p>Naval Base Guam plans to play the national anthem and evening colors on the Giant Voice starting on Aug. 1. It was originally scheduled to begin on July 4 but was postponed due to technical difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>It is a time-honored tradition to play the national anthem while raising the U.S. flag on a military installation. This time it is referred to as \u201cColors.\u201d Currently, the anthem and evening colors are played at the NBG headquarters daily.<\/p>\n<p>The Giant Voice will be activated in the following areas: Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam, South Finegayan housing, Flag Circle, I Puntan at Nimitz Hill, North and South Tipalao, Camp Covington, Apra View, Naval Magazine site (upper and lower), Lockwood Housing, U.S. Naval Hospital Guam, U.S. Coast Guard and Polaris Point.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and patrons in the surrounding areas should not be alarmed if they hear increased activity associated with the test. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA RITA, Guam\u2014U.S. Naval Base Guam will conduct a test of its broadcast system, commonly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900,4],"tags":[328,1027,51,492],"class_list":["post-42941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-coast-guard","tag-giant-voice","tag-guam","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941","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=42941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}