{"id":8211,"date":"2026-01-12T22:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/why-the-philippines-was-never-going-to-become-singapore-no-matter-who-promised-it\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:57:32","slug":"why-the-philippines-was-never-going-to-become-singapore-no-matter-who-promised-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/why-the-philippines-was-never-going-to-become-singapore-no-matter-who-promised-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Philippines Was Never Going to Become Singapore\u2014No Matter Who Promised It"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>By Karl Garcia Rodrigo Duterte was not the first Filipino leader to invoke Singapore as a model, and he will not be the last. Long before his 2016 campaign promise to \u201cmake the Philippines like Singapore,\u201d the aspiration already existed across the political spectrum. Ironically, many of Duterte\u2019s strongest critics also want the Philippines to [\u2026]<\/p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/joeam.com\/2026\/01\/13\/why-the-philippines-was-never-going-to-become-singapore-no-matter-who-promised-it\/\">Why the Philippines Was Never Going to Become Singapore\u2014No Matter Who Promised It<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karl Garcia Rodrigo Duterte was not the first Filipino leader to invoke Singapore as a model, and he will not be the last. Long before his 2016 campaign promise to \u201cmake the Philippines like Singapore,\u201d the aspiration already existed across the political spectrum. Ironically, many of Duterte\u2019s strongest critics also want the Philippines to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/why-the-philippines-was-never-going-to-become-singapore-no-matter-who-promised-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why the Philippines Was Never Going to Become Singapore\u2014No Matter Who Promised It&#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-8211","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\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}