{"id":61340,"date":"2024-01-22T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T06:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/22\/philippines-president-coldplay-concert-in-helicopter-ferdinand-marcos-jr-response"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T06:09:25","slug":"philippines-president-sparks-outcry-for-using-presidential-helicopter-to-see-coldplay-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61340","title":{"rendered":"Philippines president sparks outcry for using presidential helicopter to see Coldplay concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Marcos Jr was flown in because concert-goers created \u2018unforeseen traffic complications\u2019, bodyguards say<\/p>\n<p>Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr has been criticised for using a presidential helicopter to attend a Coldplay concert north of the capital Manila, bypassing the area\u2019s notorious traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, many accused the president of wasting taxpayers\u2019 money, and pointed out that the public has to endure Metro Manila\u2019s infamous traffic daily while commuting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/22\/philippines-president-coldplay-concert-in-helicopter-ferdinand-marcos-jr-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand Marcos Jr was flown in because concert-goers created \u2018unforeseen traffic complications\u2019, bodyguards sayPhilippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr has been criticised for using a presidential helicopter to attend a Coldplay concert north of the &#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":[41,425,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-music","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61340","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=61340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61341,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61340\/revisions\/61341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}