{"id":44385,"date":"2022-05-11T04:10:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/strong-opinions-how-marcos-jr-victory-has-divided-uk-filipinos"},"modified":"2022-05-11T04:10:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:10:41","slug":"strong-opinions-how-marcos-jrs-victory-has-divided-uk-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44385","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strong opinions\u2019: how Marcos Jr\u2019s victory has divided UK Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expatriate community in Earl\u2019s Court, London, remains split over choice of new Philippines leader<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the world, Britain\u2019s Filipino community have not been immune to the divisions preceding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/ferdinand-marcos-jr-triumph-philippines-presidential-election\">the apparent landslide victory<\/a> on Tuesday of Ferdinand Marcos Jr \u2013 son and namesake of the infamous ousted dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Even among the UK\u2019s sizeable expatriate community \u2013 whose hundreds of thousands include many who form the backbone of Britain\u2019s healthcare system \u2013 friends and family have split over the choice of their homeland\u2019s new president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/strong-opinions-how-marcos-jr-victory-has-divided-uk-filipinos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expatriate community in Earl\u2019s Court, London, remains split over choice of new Philippines leaderOn the other side of the world, Britain\u2019s Filipino community have not been immune to the divisions preceding the apparent landslide victory on Tuesday of F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3063,"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-44385","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\/44385","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\/3063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44386,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44385\/revisions\/44386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}