{"id":46329,"date":"2022-07-12T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/philippines-mayor-orders-government-workers-to-smile-or-else"},"modified":"2022-07-12T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T10:04:10","slug":"philippines-mayor-orders-government-workers-to-smile-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46329","title":{"rendered":"Philippines mayor orders government workers to smile \u2013 or else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Mulanay municipality in Quezon threatens disciplinary action for failing to follow \u2018smile policy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A mayor in the Philippines has ordered all local government workers and officials to smile while serving the public \u2013 and threatened disciplinary action against those who fail to comply.<\/p>\n<p>Aristotle \u201cAris\u201d L Aguirre, the mayor of Mulanay municipality in Quezon, has sought to tackle an apparent problem of low spirits among staff by signing an executive order adopting a \u201csmile policy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/philippines-mayor-orders-government-workers-to-smile-or-else\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Mulanay municipality in Quezon threatens disciplinary action for failing to follow \u2018smile policy\u2019A mayor in the Philippines has ordered all local government workers and officials to smile while serving the public \u2013 and threatened disciplinary a&#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":[41,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46329","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\/46329","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=46329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46329\/revisions\/46330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}