{"id":6459,"date":"2015-06-27T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2015-06-27T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:04:26","slug":"the-moral-compass-of-asean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/27\/the-moral-compass-of-asean\/","title":{"rendered":"The moral compass of ASEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Although one of the 5 founding members of ASEAN, the Philippines has never been a leader of the regional grouping. In part it was due to dictatorial reign of Ferdinand Marcos, which transformed a vibrant economy and democracy into a backwater. Its democratic transition in the mid-80s to 1990s did not overcome its reputation as the \u201csickman&#8221; of Asia. Indeed, its democracy was often used by authoritarian governments within ASEAN as justification for their \u201cenlightened authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/thought-leaders\/97010-the-moral-compass-of-asean\">The moral compass of ASEAN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although one of the 5 founding members of ASEAN, the Philippines has never been a leader of the regional grouping. In part it was due to dictatorial reign of Ferdinand Marcos, which transformed a vibrant economy and democracy into a backwater. Its democratic transition in the mid-80s to 1990s did not overcome its reputation as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/27\/the-moral-compass-of-asean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The moral compass of ASEAN&#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-6459","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\/6459","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=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}