{"id":34496,"date":"2021-07-28T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/olympic-fever-as-hidilyn-diaz-wins-philippines-first-ever-gold-medal"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:20:19","slug":"olympic-fever-as-hidilyn-diaz-wins-philippines-first-ever-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34496","title":{"rendered":"Olympic fever as Hidilyn Diaz wins Philippines\u2019 first ever gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino weightlifter becomes a national hero despite once facing accusations of plotting against president Rodrigo Duterte<\/p>\n<p>Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, one day after making history as the Philippines\u2019 first ever Olympic gold medallist, took top billing in an ecstatic nation\u2019s newspapers above reports on a major speech by her president.<\/p>\n<p>But for the 30-year-old being showered with accolades, the story was very different in 2019, when her name was included on a list of people accused of plotting against the same man, Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/olympic-fever-as-hidilyn-diaz-wins-philippines-first-ever-gold-medal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino weightlifter becomes a national hero despite once facing accusations of plotting against president Rodrigo DuterteWeightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, one day after making history as the Philippines\u2019 first ever Olympic gold medallist, took top billing i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions\/34497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}