{"id":53,"date":"2006-08-17T12:51:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T17:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/53-fast-facts-about-guam"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:21:32","slug":"fast-facts-about-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/53-fast-facts-about-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Facts about Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Guam\" alt=\"Guam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/guam.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Guam is a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 It is part of an island chain called Micronesia, but it is also an unincorporated territory of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Just 30 miles long and between 8 and 11 miles wide, it has a population of about 150,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Marianas Trench, the deepest trench in the ocean floor, borders Guam on the eastern side.\u00a0 When measuring from the bottom of the trench to the top of the highest point on Guam, you get the world&#8217;s tallest mountain:\u00a0 Humuyong Manglo.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe native people of Guam are the Chamorros.\u00a0 In their language &#8220;Hafa Adai&#8221; means &#8220;hello.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many tropical fruits can be found on Guam, including papaya, mangos, bananas, coconuts, guavas and limes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand Magellan landed on Guam March 6, 1521, sailing under the Spanish Flag.\u00a0 Guam still has the remains of Spanish forts on its coasts today.<\/p>\n<p>Latte stones are unique to the Marianas archipelago.\u00a0 They were huge stone supports for the ancient Chamorro houses.\u00a0 Now they are monuments to a culture that thrived and survived on its own before any connection with the East or West became reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guam is a major tourist destination for Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Australians, and therefore it is multicultural and diverse in languages and cuisines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guam is a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 It is part of an island chain called Micronesia, but it is also an unincorporated territory of the United States. Just 30 miles long and between 8 and 11 miles wide, it has a population of about 150,000. The Marianas Trench, the deepest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}