{"id":6216,"date":"2014-12-14T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2014-12-14T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:29:26","slug":"mar-roxas-and-the-motorcycle-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/14\/mar-roxas-and-the-motorcycle-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar Roxas and the motorcycle slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sabi nga nila no good deed goes un punished (for the devil is more vindictive fellow)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My past experiences have often made me a skeptic. But one thing is clear in my mind: for those six days in Eastern Samar, many people were simply trying to do their jobs to the best of their abilities: the mayor who left her hospital bed in Manila to be with her people; the planning officer, in over his head when he was made DRRM officer; the governor who deferred his chemo treatments to stay in the command center; the local and international NGOs and relief volunteers who rushed to help without hesitation; the media men and women who were on the ground reporting responsibly from the start; and many others who did their share.<br \/>\nLike them, Mar Roxas was merely doing his job. He was serving the people.<br \/>\nI know. I was there. \u2013 Rappler.com<br \/>\nRep. Jose Christopher &#8220;Kit&#8221; Belmote represents the 6th district of Quezon City in the Philippine House of Representatives.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/move-ph\/ispeak\/77986-mar-roxas-motorcycle-slide?utm_content=buffer68176&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Mar Roxas and the motorcycle slide<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabi nga nila no good deed goes un punished (for the devil is more vindictive fellow) My past experiences have often made me a skeptic. But one thing is clear in my mind: for those six days in Eastern Samar, many people were simply trying to do their jobs to the best of their abilities: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/14\/mar-roxas-and-the-motorcycle-slide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mar Roxas and the motorcycle slide&#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-6216","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\/6216","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=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}