{"id":37048,"date":"2021-09-19T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/boxing-legend-manny-pacquiao-to-run-for-president-of-philippines"},"modified":"2021-09-19T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:47:47","slug":"boxer-manny-pacquiao-to-run-for-philippines-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37048","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Manny Pacquiao to run for Philippines president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular senator pursues anti-corruption crusade, threatening jail for dishonest officials<\/p>\n<p>The boxer Manny Pacquiao has said he will run for president of the Philippines next year, after railing against corruption in government and President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s \u201ccozy\u201d relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest boxers of all time and the only man to hold world titles in eight divisions, Pacquiao accepted the nomination of his political allies during the national assembly of the faction he leads in the ruling PDP-Laban party, days after a rival faction nominated Duterte\u2019s longtime aide, Christopher \u201cBong\u201d Go, as its presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/boxing-legend-manny-pacquiao-to-run-for-president-of-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular senator pursues anti-corruption crusade, threatening jail for dishonest officialsThe boxer Manny Pacquiao has said he will run for president of the Philippines next year, after railing against corruption in government and President Rodrigo Dute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2586,"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":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","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\/37048","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\/2586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37049,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37048\/revisions\/37049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}