{"id":5037,"date":"2011-12-21T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:11:51","slug":"reposttebow-was-here-superstar-still-unknown-in-philippines-city-of-his-birth-thepostgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/21\/reposttebow-was-here-superstar-still-unknown-in-philippines-city-of-his-birth-thepostgame\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Tebow Was Here? Superstar Still Unknown In Philippines City Of His Birth &#124; ThePostGame"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Basketball is the biggest sport that we follow; we don&#8217;t know much about American sports apart from that,&#8221; Makati contractor Jerry Araneta said. &#8220;I only know of O.J. Simpson, for obvious reasons. Oh, and Brett Favre. There is a poster of him in my favorite bar. But not Tim Tebow, I don&#8217;t know him.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat may change soon, especially if Tebow&#8217;s fame and form continue to surge. Two Manila newspapers are planning stories on the quarterback this week, and Filipino state television is sending a crew to the Broncos&#8217; showdown against the New England Patriots on Sunday.<br \/>\nTebow continues his family&#8217;s mission work, and his foundation has combined with renowned charity CURE International to build a state-of-the-art hospital in the troubled region of Davao that will provide reconstructive surgery for children suffering from deformities.<br \/>\nFunding for the $3.1 million project is nearly 80 percent complete, and it is expected that Tebow will be present at the groundbreaking ceremony in January.<br \/>\nUnless, of course, the weekly escape acts continue into the post-season.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostgame.com\/features\/201112\/tebow-was-here-superstar-unknown-city-his-birth\">Tebow Was Here? Superstar Still Unknown In Philippines City Of His Birth | ThePostGame<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Basketball is the biggest sport that we follow; we don&#8217;t know much about American sports apart from that,&#8221; Makati contractor Jerry Araneta said. &#8220;I only know of O.J. Simpson, for obvious reasons. Oh, and Brett Favre. There is a poster of him in my favorite bar. But not Tim Tebow, I don&#8217;t know him.&#8221; That &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/21\/reposttebow-was-here-superstar-still-unknown-in-philippines-city-of-his-birth-thepostgame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Tebow Was Here? Superstar Still Unknown In Philippines City Of His Birth &#124; ThePostGame&#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-5037","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\/5037","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=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}