{"id":99776,"date":"2006-04-13T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a6d6af99-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-04-13T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T06:17:00","slug":"a6d6afaa-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a6d6afaa-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional speech, debate contests end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Pacific Regional Speech and Debate Contest was held last Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8, at Kagman High School. <\/p>\n<p>Competition on both the middle school and high school levels was tough. Several judges remarked after judging rounds, &#8220;These kids are really talented!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the contest is now over. The gold medal, or first place winners, have now earned the right to attend national tournaments on the mainland in June. Our thanks go out to the judges and other volunteers who spent long hours helping to make this contest a success,\u201d said Marilee Norman, vice president of WPR-National Forensic League.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the contest will be released at a future date. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Pacific Regional Speech and Debate Contest was held last Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8, at Kagman High School. <\/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-99776","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\/99776","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=99776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}