{"id":49080,"date":"2022-10-05T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/05\/outrage-after-philippine-journalist-percival-mabasa-shot-dead-in-manila"},"modified":"2022-10-05T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:05:13","slug":"outrage-after-philippine-journalist-percival-mabasa-shot-dead-in-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49080","title":{"rendered":"Outrage after Philippine journalist Percival Mabasa shot dead in Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media groups and activists describe assassination of radio star, known on air as Percy Lapid, as a blow to press freedom<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Philippine journalist has been shot dead while driving in the country\u2019s capital, Manila, according to police, prompting condemnation from media groups and activists, who described his assassination as a blow to press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Radio journalist Percival Mabasa, 63, was killed by two assailants at the gate of a residential compound in the Las Pinas area of Manila on Monday night, police said. He was shot twice in the head.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/05\/outrage-after-philippine-journalist-percival-mabasa-shot-dead-in-manila\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media groups and activists describe assassination of radio star, known on air as Percy Lapid, as a blow to press freedomA prominent Philippine journalist has been shot dead while driving in the country\u2019s capital, Manila, according to police, prompting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,238,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-media","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\/49080","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49081,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49080\/revisions\/49081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}