{"id":4065,"date":"2010-04-23T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2010-04-23T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:26:13","slug":"repost-f-so-many-of-us-truly-believe-_____-is-the-best-candidate-to-navigate-the-philippines-through-these-very-tough-times-and-we-dont-do-what-we-can-to-make-him-president-travelife-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/23\/repost-f-so-many-of-us-truly-believe-_____-is-the-best-candidate-to-navigate-the-philippines-through-these-very-tough-times-and-we-dont-do-what-we-can-to-make-him-president-travelife-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: f so many of us truly believe _____ is the best candidate to navigate the Philippines through these very tough times and we don&#039;t do what we can to make him president. :: Travelife Magazine&#039;s Suitcase Tales: Talking Travel with Gilbert Teodoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real tragedy lies with us Filipinos: if so many of us truly believe GIBO is the best candidate to navigate the Philippines through these very tough times and we don&#8217;t do what we can to make him president. If we believe he&#8217;ll make the best president and yet we don&#8217;t elect him because other candidates have more money, more machinery, more pedigree or a couple of very powerful media behind them, we&#8217;ve basically slammed the door on an opportunity that doesn&#8217;t come very often in the history of a country. Truly great presidential material is rare anywhere, but it&#8217;s perhaps rarer in countries like ours where real skills and capabilities take the backseat to sentimentalism, showbiz and media perceptions. Don&#8217;t we deserve and need the best qualified person as president, especially at this very crucial time for ourselves and the world?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/travelifemagazine.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/talking-travel-with-gilbert-teodoro.html?spref=fb\">Travelife Magazine&#8217;s Suitcase Tales: Talking Travel with Gilbert Teodoro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real tragedy lies with us Filipinos: if so many of us truly believe GIBO is the best candidate to navigate the Philippines through these very tough times and we don&#8217;t do what we can to make him president. If we believe he&#8217;ll make the best president and yet we don&#8217;t elect him because other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/23\/repost-f-so-many-of-us-truly-believe-_____-is-the-best-candidate-to-navigate-the-philippines-through-these-very-tough-times-and-we-dont-do-what-we-can-to-make-him-president-travelife-magazine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: f so many of us truly believe _____ is the best candidate to navigate the Philippines through these very tough times and we don&#039;t do what we can to make him president. :: Travelife Magazine&#039;s Suitcase Tales: Talking Travel with Gilbert Teodoro&#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":[24,61,62,65,66,67,68,71,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-people","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-ponder","category-poverty","category-presidential-election-watch-2010","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","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=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}