{"id":98159,"date":"2006-02-19T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a65702e5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-02-19T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T03:24:00","slug":"a65702f6-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a65702f6-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Las Vegas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright lights turned to Aqua Resort Club in Achugao last Saturday night as the Rotary Club of Saipan hosted Las Vegas Night.<\/p>\n<p>The island\u2019s high-heeled crowd and people who just wanted to have a good time not only savored an evening of excellent food and beverages but games of chance that are always the order of the day come Las Vegas Night.<\/p>\n<p>President James Whitt expressed his gratitude for the support of the more than 500 people who attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>He said the turnout was so unexpected that they had to reuse old tickets to accommodate guests that wanted to attend Las Vegas Night, which featured a bumper crop of prizes the biggest of which, a 2006 Hyundai Sonata GL, was won by Eric Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners include Felipe Pedernal, who won $500 cash, Warren Villagomez $1,000, and Ruth Pangelinan and Kelly Phillips, who each won $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Whitt said this year\u2019s Las Vegas Night was hoping to raise at least $30,000 with a net of $10,000 in order for the club to continue contributing to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright lights turned to Aqua Resort Club in Achugao last Saturday night as the Rotary Club of Saipan hosted Las Vegas Night.<\/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-98159","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\/98159","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=98159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}