{"id":85238,"date":"2004-10-30T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a10694ab-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-10-30T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T03:59:00","slug":"a10694bc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a10694bc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Star Montessori puts cultures on the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brilliant Star Montessori School family recently completed a week of promoting various cultures from around the world, capping their celebration with a parade Friday morning around the school\u2019s campus on Navy Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The weeklong celebration, dubbed International Culture Week, also featured guest speakers who gave presentations on various cultures, foods, dances, crafts, and music, among others.<\/p>\n<p>According to school principal Trish Copeland, the celebration was geared toward not only promoting other cultures, but also providing a venue for students to showcase their cultures to their classmates, as well as teach students the importance of appreciating their culture and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a celebration of cultural diversity and a common union as people,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The students tasted foods from other countries, learned to count and greet in other languages, made crafts like origami and bead-making.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, students, parents, and supporters dressed in costumes showing various clothes from around the world. A program featuring cultural dances from Polynesia, Cambodia, among others, and ballet was also included in the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The school comprises 75 students with 14 different nationalities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brilliant Star Montessori School family recently completed a week of promoting various cultures from around the world, capping their celebration with a parade Friday morning around the school\u2019s campus on Navy Hill.<\/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-85238","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\/85238","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=85238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}