{"id":100403,"date":"2017-04-29T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100403"},"modified":"2017-04-29T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T01:18:41","slug":"coffee-perks-up-amadeos-pahimis-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/29\/coffee-perks-up-amadeos-pahimis-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee perks up Amadeo\u2019s &#8216;Pahimis Festival&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100404\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2161129645_ea2e96d12e_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100404\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2161129645_ea2e96d12e_z.jpg\" alt=\"This town dubbed &quot;Coffee Capital&quot; has once again perked up, thanks to its annual &quot;Pahimis Festival&quot; which gives tribute to its main industry. The festival ended last April 23 (Photo: Toshiyuki IMAI\/ Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2161129645_ea2e96d12e_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2161129645_ea2e96d12e_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This town dubbed &#8220;Coffee Capital&#8221; has once again perked up, thanks to its annual &#8220;Pahimis Festival&#8221; which gives tribute to its main industry. The festival ended last April 23 (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/matsuyuki\/\"> Toshiyuki IMAI\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AMADEO\u2013Amadeo Mayor Albert S. Ambagan on Saturday lauded &#8220;the coffee farmers\u2019 great contribution to putting Amadeo on the map as a major coffee producer that it is right now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This town dubbed &#8220;Coffee Capital&#8221; has once again perked up, thanks to its annual &#8220;Pahimis Festival&#8221; which gives tribute to its main industry. The festival ended last April 23.<\/p>\n<p>In a report on Saturday, Mayor Ambagan said the festival aimed to impart on the youth the town&#8217;s unique characteristics, tradition and its top produce: coffee beans.<\/p>\n<p>Ambagan, speaking in Filipino, said that \u201cfarming has been sustaining and providing the opportunity to constituents here to achieve the development we now enjoy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted how the town\u2019s one-town-one-product (OTOP) has produced successful professionals, world-class traders and entrepreneurs, and calls on the youth for continued patronage of their products.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged the town\u2019s youths to appreciate the town\u2019s natural beauty and cultural richness \u201cin the same breadth in loving our race\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme \u201cKAPE\u2026Noon, Ngayon at Bukas\u201d (coffee\u2026then, now and in the future) featured generations of coffee growers whose main staple crop serves as the town\u2019s one-town-one-product (OTOP).<\/p>\n<p>Department of Tourism (DOT) Assistant Secretary Maria Lourdes Japson, who graced the festival rites, had reiterated the tourism department\u2019s commitment to fully support the promotion of Amadeo\u2019s unique travel experience offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMADEO\u2013Amadeo Mayor Albert S. Ambagan on Saturday lauded &#8220;the coffee farmers\u2019 great contribution to putting Amadeo on the map as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3969,18500],"class_list":["post-100403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-coffee","tag-pahimis-festival","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}