{"id":6186,"date":"2014-11-30T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2014-11-30T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T12:32:22","slug":"binay-does-not-have-to-be-declared-guilty-to-get-thrown-from-the-presidential-race-the-society-of-honor-by-joe-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/30\/binay-does-not-have-to-be-declared-guilty-to-get-thrown-from-the-presidential-race-the-society-of-honor-by-joe-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Binay does not have to be declared guilty to get thrown from the presidential race &#124; The Society of Honor by Joe America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jejomar Binay would not be a presidential candidate in America. Period.<br \/>\nHe has not been convicted of breaking any laws. But he would be convicted of violating the sense of good behavior that we . . . as informed, thinking voters . . . demand.<br \/>\nWhy are so many Filipinos just standing by and waiting for a\u00a0court conviction? Waiting for the Ombudsman? Waiting for impeachment? Waiting for an official act?<br \/>\nPerhaps because in the space between laws and freedoms, Filipinos have no clarity of conscience themselves. Frankly, I don\u2019t wholly understand why there so little condemnation\u00a0of Vice President Binay from important people who are SUPPOSED to have good ethical bearing. Leaders concede every benefit to the top crook in the land waiting for an official to tell them what to think. It\u2019s like they are ethically impotent. I have shied away from the term cowardly. But . . . they . . . just . . . can\u2019t . . . speak . . . up.<br \/>\nThere are no\u00a0Rizals among the current crop of leaders, I\u2019d guess.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/joeam.com\/2014\/11\/30\/binay-does-not-have-to-be-declared-guilty-to-get-thrown-from-the-presidential-race\/\">Binay does not have to be declared guilty to get thrown from the presidential race | The Society of Honor by Joe America<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jejomar Binay would not be a presidential candidate in America. Period. He has not been convicted of breaking any laws. But he would be convicted of violating the sense of good behavior that we . . . as informed, thinking voters . . . demand. Why are so many Filipinos just standing by and waiting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/30\/binay-does-not-have-to-be-declared-guilty-to-get-thrown-from-the-presidential-race-the-society-of-honor-by-joe-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Binay does not have to be declared guilty to get thrown from the presidential race &#124; The Society of Honor by Joe America&#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":[62,65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","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\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}