{"id":37530,"date":"2021-10-01T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/it-is-a-circus-philippines-election-season-gets-under-way"},"modified":"2021-10-01T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:50:30","slug":"it-is-a-circus-philippines-election-season-gets-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37530","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It is a circus\u2019: Philippines election season gets under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frontrunners to succeed president Rodrigo Duterte in May vote include his daughter and Ferdinand Marcos\u2019s son, with boxing star Manny Pacquia also in mix <\/p>\n<p>The Philippines\u2019 election season has kicked off with TV celebrities, political scions and at least one inmate expected to be among thousands of candidates vying for posts from president to town councillor.<\/p>\n<p>A week-long registration process launches a typically noisy and deadly seven months of campaigning for more than 18,000 positions \u2013 but the raging pandemic and economic misery caused by harsh lockdowns could dampen the party atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/it-is-a-circus-philippines-election-season-gets-under-way\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontrunners to succeed president Rodrigo Duterte in May vote include his daughter and Ferdinand Marcos\u2019s son, with boxing star Manny Pacquia also in mix The Philippines\u2019 election season has kicked off with TV celebrities, political scions and at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37530","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\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37530\/revisions\/37531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}