{"id":95965,"date":"2005-12-03T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a5a3efcd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2005-12-03T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T00:54:00","slug":"a5a3efe0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a5a3efe0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai sojourn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A welcome retreat to what is dubbed \u201cThe Oriental Paris\u201d was experienced by 11 of Saipan\u2019s hardworking men and women during a three-day, two-night package tour of Shanghai arranged by Century Travel Agency Inc. last Nov. 12 to 14.<\/p>\n<p>Century\u2019s Jie Zhou served as ever-patient tour guide to Ariel Mariano, Ruby Fortaleza, Elna Curate, Lani Matillano, Judith Salao, Rodimer Roque, Dr. and Mrs. Lim, and a couple who requested that what happens in Shanghai stays in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>The sightseeing trip to the Middle Kingdom\u2019s former gateway to the West saw the 11 visit popular landmarks like The Bund, Yuyuan Gardens, and People\u2019s Park. They also did a lot of shopping and took advantage of the mighty dollar\u2019s favorable exchange rate by spending to their hearts\u2019 content on stores along Nanjing Road.<\/p>\n<p>The transplanted \u201cislanders\u201d also got a taste of sports racing by watching Formula F4 racing at the outskirts of Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A welcome retreat to what is dubbed the \u201cOriented Paris\u201d was experienced by 11 of Saipan\u2019s hardworking men and women during a three-day, two-night package tour of Shanghai arranged by Century Travel Agency Inc. last Nov. 12 to 14.<\/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-95965","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\/95965","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=95965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}