{"id":1778,"date":"2009-09-14T01:38:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T06:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2009-09-14T01:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T06:38:35","slug":"20-year-bet-watchson-of-ex-general-garcia-lives-in-style-amid-us-house-arrest-nation-gmanews-tv-official-website-of-gma-news-and-public-affairs-latest-philippine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/20-year-bet-watchson-of-ex-general-garcia-lives-in-style-amid-us-house-arrest-nation-gmanews-tv-official-website-of-gma-news-and-public-affairs-latest-philippine-news\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Year Bet Watch::Son of ex-general Garcia lives in style amid US house arrest &#8211; Nation &#8211; GMANews.TV &#8211; Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs &#8211; Latest Philippine News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Fuck You!\u00a0 I made a bet with vince that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Philippines\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=14.5833333333,121.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=14.5833333333,121.0%20%28Philippines%29&amp;t=h\">Philippines<\/a> would be a great country in 20 years , this was around 4 years ago, I believe I am losing, THis is the first post in the 20 year Bet Watch series!<br \/>\nSometimes I have this fantasy of being a punisher like character and extract vengeance in behalf of all the soldiers and all the poor people of the Philippines. damn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Readers protest vs Davis\u2019 piece<br \/>\nDavis\u2019 article on Garcia\u2019s lifestyle did not sit well with some angry readers.<br \/>\n&#8220;My good lord, I could not even articulate how disgusted I am by this article, or, to be more accurate, by this animal. His father was a mere <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Major general (United States)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_general_%28United_States%29\">major general<\/a> in an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Poverty\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poverty\">impoverished<\/a> country where a college teacher earns $300.00 a month, and here&#8217;s a family who can afford all these luxuries,&#8221; wrote a reader named \u201cmoqueuo.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;As the butterfly son wails over his lost little freedom, an ankle monitor by his branded leather boots, soldiers of the Philippine army (are) fighting in wet and dangerous jungles\u2026with their worn out boots, dying to help stop terrorists who are part of the group who destroyed your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"World Trade Center\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.7116666667,-74.0125&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=40.7116666667,-74.0125%20%28World%20Trade%20Center%29&amp;t=h\">World Trade Center<\/a> eight years ago,&#8221; wrote a certain FlipNFlip.<br \/>\n&#8220;People are dying here (Philippines) because money needed to feed and care for people here have to give it up because of the frivolous lifestyle of this Tim Garcia,&#8221; FlipNFlip added.<br \/>\n&#8220;Pathetic story, pathetic excuse for a man, pathetic family. If <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Peter Davis (director)\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0205282\/\">Peter Davis<\/a> is trying to develop a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sympathetic character\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sympathetic_character\">sympathetic character<\/a> in the form of this guy, Tim Garcia, he&#8217;s missed completely. But if he&#8217;s revealing the repulsive self-indulgences and wallowing of a depressing little man, well, he succeeded,&#8221; read a comment by a certain <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Edmond Dant\u00e8s\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmond_Dant%C3%A8s\">Edmond Dantes<\/a>. &#8211; GMANews.TV<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanews.tv\/story\/172250\/son-of-ex-general-garcia-lives-in-style-amid-house-arrest\">Son of ex-general Garcia lives in style amid US house arrest &#8211; Nation &#8211; GMANews.TV &#8211; Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs &#8211; Latest Philippine News<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/87778178-c375-415d-b1ee-3d5d2d80d972\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Fuck You!\u00a0 I made a bet with vince that the Philippines would be a great country in 20 years , this was around 4 years ago, I believe I am losing, THis is the first post in the 20 year Bet Watch series! Sometimes I have this fantasy of being a punisher like character &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/20-year-bet-watchson-of-ex-general-garcia-lives-in-style-amid-us-house-arrest-nation-gmanews-tv-official-website-of-gma-news-and-public-affairs-latest-philippine-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 Year Bet Watch::Son of ex-general Garcia lives in style amid US house arrest &#8211; Nation &#8211; GMANews.TV &#8211; Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs &#8211; Latest Philippine News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bet-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}