{"id":57624,"date":"2023-08-17T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/philippines-callout-what-do-you-think-of-ferdinand-marcos-jrs-first-year-as-president"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:14:08","slug":"philippines-callout-what-do-you-think-of-ferdinand-marcos-jrs-first-year-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57624","title":{"rendered":"Philippines callout: what do you think of Ferdinand Marcos Jr\u2019s first year as president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to hear from people in the Philippines on Marcos Jr, the South China Sea and their hopes for the future<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/a-year-of-marcos-jr-how-a-dictators-son-has-changed-the-philippines\">Ferdinand Marcos Jr\u2019s<\/a> landslide win in last year\u2019s Philippines presidential election, the son of the former dictator has insisted he be judged on his own merit during his term.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the country has seen a stronger stance on the situation in the South China Sea and warmer relations with the US. Inflation has soared and the price of food has made many staple items unaffordable as people worry about the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/business\/08\/16\/23\/rice-sufficient-but-dti-da-to-monitor-prices-palace\">supply of rice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/philippines-callout-what-do-you-think-of-ferdinand-marcos-jrs-first-year-as-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to hear from people in the Philippines on Marcos Jr, the South China Sea and their hopes for the futureFollowing Ferdinand Marcos Jr\u2019s landslide win in last year\u2019s Philippines presidential election, the son of the former dictator has insi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57624","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57625,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57624\/revisions\/57625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}