{"id":81747,"date":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9fb5593e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"9fb5594f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9fb5594f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson resigns as House counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House of Representatives legal counsel Murphy Peterson resigned from his post effective yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of the five years that I have served as a government attorney I have greatly enjoyed being able to contribute to the welfare of the community for which I have served and now consider my home,\u201d said Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>He did not cite the reason of leaving. Some staff said, though, he may depart the island for good.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his work in the Legislature beginning last year, Peterson worked as legal counsel for the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.<\/p>\n<p>He initially worked as an assistant attorney general.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Representatives legal counsel Murphy Peterson resigned from his post effective yesterday.<\/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-81747","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\/81747","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=81747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}