{"id":2090,"date":"2009-11-06T02:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T07:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2009-11-06T02:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T07:27:41","slug":"repostthe-meaning-of-manny-printout-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/06\/repostthe-meaning-of-manny-printout-time\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The Meaning of Manny &#8212; Printout &#8212; TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The broad outlines of his history \u2014 his legend \u2014 have made the boxer a projection of the migrant dreams of the many Filipinos who leave home and country for work. About 10% of the Philippines&#8217; GDP is money remitted from overseas Filipinos: nurses, nannies, sailors, singers, doctors, cooks, X-ray technicians, mail-order brides, construction workers, prostitutes, priests, nuns. <strong>Some spend decades abroad, away from the ones they love, for the sake of the ones they love. Everyone in the Philippines knows a person who has made the sacrifice or is making it. Pacquiao gives that multitude a champion&#8217;s face of selflessness: the winner who takes all and gives to all. &#8220;To live in the Philippines is to live in a world of uncertainty and hardship,&#8221;<\/strong> says Nick Giongco, who covers Pacquiao for the daily Manila Bulletin. &#8220;Filipinos are dreamers. They like fantasy. And what is more of a fantasy than Manny Pacquiao?&#8221; (Read a 2004 story about Pacquiao.)<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,1935091,00.htm\">The Meaning of Manny &#8212; Printout &#8212; TIME<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broad outlines of his history \u2014 his legend \u2014 have made the boxer a projection of the migrant dreams of the many Filipinos who leave home and country for work. About 10% of the Philippines&#8217; GDP is money remitted from overseas Filipinos: nurses, nannies, sailors, singers, doctors, cooks, X-ray technicians, mail-order brides, construction workers, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/06\/repostthe-meaning-of-manny-printout-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::The Meaning of Manny &#8212; Printout &#8212; TIME&#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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","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=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}