{"id":53786,"date":"2000-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96413a34-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-09-28T00:00:00","slug":"96413a48-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96413a48-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres tells CUC, MCV to prune tree branches hanging on cable lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild vines growing on hanging cables by the islands&#8217; lone television cable company have drawn attention from one of the lawmakers who said such condition could be dangerous to residents.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Stanley T. Torres urged the Marianas Cable Vision and the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. to take necessary trimming to prevent any untoward incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is &#8220;confused&#8221; to see CUC crew pruning tree branches that get in contact with power poles and lines without bothering to cut vines hanging on MCV cable.<\/p>\n<p>Noting the cable company pays fees for use of the CUC poles for its cables, the Saipan representative said shearing the vines should be included in the maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ironically, leaving the wild vines hanging still poses potential danger to the two power poles to snap in two,&#8221; Mr. Torres wrote to Joe Butter, MCV general manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sorry to say that the vines are not only ugly on your cables, it is also a disgrace to both CUC and MCV, and by keeping them hanging, it tells a lot about both parties&#8217;. . . ability on  a standing maintenance and performances,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild vines growing on hanging cables by the islands&#8217; lone television cable company have drawn attention from one of the lawmakers who said such condition could be dangerous to residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53786","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\/53786","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=53786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}