{"id":5953,"date":"2014-09-27T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2014-09-27T22:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:51:20","slug":"pointless-initiative-inquirer-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/27\/pointless-initiative-inquirer-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointless initiative &#124; Inquirer Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why media people should stop interviewing Neri Colmenares.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It pains me to write this because I have great respect for many figures who stood up to lead the antipork movements, but I have severe reservations regarding others. As I fear that the proposed law was not well thought out, I instantly face-palmed when I saw Rep. Neri Colmenares quoted in many reports. <strong>He had previously consistently come unprepared and made vague claims before the high court. He was quoted saying, \u201cI am not very familiar with the Internet\u201d in the cybercrime case and, \u201cI am not very familiar with Epira (Electric Power Industry Reform Act)\u201d when he sued the Manila Electric Co.<\/strong> Similarly, it is difficult not to have reservations about the CBCP, given how they seem to be more of a political actor than a moral compass these days. So what are the real agenda?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.inquirer.net\/77806\/pointless-initiative\">Pointless initiative | Inquirer Opinion<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why media people should stop interviewing Neri Colmenares. It pains me to write this because I have great respect for many figures who stood up to lead the antipork movements, but I have severe reservations regarding others. As I fear that the proposed law was not well thought out, I instantly face-palmed when I saw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/27\/pointless-initiative-inquirer-opinion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pointless initiative &#124; Inquirer Opinion&#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":[65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","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=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}