{"id":5383,"date":"2012-09-10T00:38:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2012-09-10T00:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:38:05","slug":"corazon-aquino-person-of-the-century-december-30-1999-the-philippines-free-press-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/corazon-aquino-person-of-the-century-december-30-1999-the-philippines-free-press-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Corazon Aquino: Person of the Century, December 30, 1999 \u00ab The Philippines Free Press Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe FREE PRESS\u2019s 1952 editorial saw what was coming: \u201cThe country has had its entertainment; now the country must pay for it. It was a fine show, while it lasted. This is not to blame Quezon; he was the political leader the country wanted. He did his best to give the people what they wanted. Had the people demanded more, Quezon would doubtless have given it to them; he was too good a politician not to give the people what they wanted. <strong>But as water cannot rise above its own level, the politician cannot rise above the people\u2019s. The people wanted him, got him. Now they have what they have.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/philippinesfreepress.wordpress.com\/1999\/12\/30\/corazon-aquino-person-of-the-century-december-30-1999\/\">Corazon Aquino: Person of the Century, December 30, 1999 \u00ab The Philippines Free Press Online<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The FREE PRESS\u2019s 1952 editorial saw what was coming: \u201cThe country has had its entertainment; now the country must pay for it. It was a fine show, while it lasted. This is not to blame Quezon; he was the political leader the country wanted. He did his best to give the people what they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/corazon-aquino-person-of-the-century-december-30-1999-the-philippines-free-press-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corazon Aquino: Person of the Century, December 30, 1999 \u00ab The Philippines Free Press Online&#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-5383","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\/5383","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=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}