{"id":38148,"date":"2021-10-19T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/some-call-it-a-circus-ictators-son-boxing-icon-and-former-actor-vie-to-lead-philippines"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:14:56","slug":"some-call-it-a-circus-dictators-son-boxing-icon-and-former-actor-vie-to-lead-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38148","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Some call it a circus\u2019: dictator\u2019s son, boxing icon and former actor vie to lead Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential vote is likely to be referendum on the kind of governance the public wants after almost six years of Rodrigo Duterte in power<\/p>\n<p>A dictator\u2019s son, an actor-turned-mayor, and a champion boxer: an eclectic mix of personalities declared this month that they would compete to become the Philippine\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 million Filipinos will go to the polls to decide who should replace the populist leader Rodrigo Duterte, who is nearing the end of his six-year term limit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/19\/some-call-it-a-circus-ictators-son-boxing-icon-and-former-actor-vie-to-lead-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential vote is likely to be referendum on the kind of governance the public wants after almost six years of Rodrigo Duterte in powerA dictator\u2019s son, an actor-turned-mayor, and a champion boxer: an eclectic mix of personalities declared this mont&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38149,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148\/revisions\/38149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}