{"id":8206,"date":"2025-10-31T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/two-decades-on-did-get-real-philippines-get-it-right-about-filipino-dysfunction\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:43:07","slug":"two-decades-on-did-get-real-philippines-get-it-right-about-filipino-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/two-decades-on-did-get-real-philippines-get-it-right-about-filipino-dysfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Decades On: Did Get Real Philippines Get It Right About Filipino Dysfunction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyofhonor.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_0251.jpeg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\"><\/figure><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>By Karl GarciaOriginally inspired by GetRealPhilippines.com\u2019s essay, first published on August 20, 2002. In the early 2000s, Get Real Philippines (GRP) struck a nerve. At a time when political instability, corruption, and moral fatigue defined the national mood, GRP\u2019s essays offered a bracing diagnosis: the Philippines was not merely suffering from bad leadership\u2014it was crippled [\u2026]<\/p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/joeam.com\/2025\/10\/30\/two-decades-on-did-get-real-philippines-get-it-right-about-filipino-dysfunction\/\">Two Decades On: Did Get Real Philippines Get It Right About Filipino Dysfunction?<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karl GarciaOriginally inspired by GetRealPhilippines.com\u2019s essay, first published on August 20, 2002. In the early 2000s, Get Real Philippines (GRP) struck a nerve. At a time when political instability, corruption, and moral fatigue defined the national mood, GRP\u2019s essays offered a bracing diagnosis: the Philippines was not merely suffering from bad leadership\u2014it was crippled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/two-decades-on-did-get-real-philippines-get-it-right-about-filipino-dysfunction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Decades On: Did Get Real Philippines Get It Right About Filipino Dysfunction?&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206","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=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}