{"id":9134,"date":"2011-12-20T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2011-12-20T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:34:59","slug":"half-of-aging-congregates-to-join-christmas-gift-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/half-of-aging-congregates-to-join-christmas-gift-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Aging congregates to join Christmas gift exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Only half of the congregates at the Aging Center will be taking part in their Christmas exchange gift, according to Saipan Seniors Advisory Council chair Teresita Sorroza.<\/p>\n<p>As she addressed the congregates in yesterday&#8217;s meeting, Sorroza said only 33 of about 70 man&#8217;amko expressed interest in participating in the annual holiday activity.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for their reason why they won&#8217;t join the activity, several of the man&#8217;amko gave varied reasons, from having medical appointments to just not wanting to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Sorroza told the congregates, \u201cIt&#8217;s not just about giving and receiving. It&#8217;s about unity because majority of the group already voted to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After appealing to her fellow man&#8217;amko, Sorroza was able to get seven more congregates to join the exchange gift which will take place at the center on Dec. 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be nice to share with the other man&#8217;amko the spirit of Christmas through this activity,\u201d added Sorroza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter Only half of the congregates at the Aging Center will be&#8230;<\/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-9134","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\/9134","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=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}