{"id":1797,"date":"2010-09-16T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2014-07-21T20:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:06:04","slug":"%e2%80%9cbrilliant-heartbreaking-and-beautiful-a-lasting-tribute%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBrilliant, heartbreaking and beautiful&#8230; a lasting tribute\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Travis Coffman, Newstalk K57, Guam<\/strong><br \/>\nI have covered the Marianas for nearly 20 years as a journalist and broadcaster, and this feature captures the essence of the relationship between the U.S. and its possessions more accurately than any single work I&#8217;ve ever come across. It is at once brilliant, heartbreaking and beautiful without pandering to anyone&#8217;s particular agenda. It will stand, I know as a lasting tribute to the men and women so affectionately and authentically portrayed in this compelling celebration of a truth that remains untold to much of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Coffman, Newstalk K57, Guam I have covered the Marianas for nearly 20 years as a journalist and broadcaster, and this feature captures the essence of the relationship between the U.S. and its possessions more accurately than any single work I&#8217;ve ever come across. It is at once brilliant, heartbreaking and beautiful without pandering to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}