{"id":106781,"date":"2017-07-03T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=106781"},"modified":"2017-07-03T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T03:46:47","slug":"lacson-slams-trillanes-for-calling-colleagues-lapdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/03\/lacson-slams-trillanes-for-calling-colleagues-lapdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacson slams Trillanes for calling colleagues &#8216;lapdogs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87480\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lacson-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87480\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lacson-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson. (Photo: Senator Ping Lacson\/Facebook)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lacson-3.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lacson-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lacson-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lacson-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenatorPingLacson\/photos\/a.1360555360681126.1073741967.824886400914694\/1360555557347773\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenatorPingLacson\" target=\"_blank\"> Senator Ping Lacson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Monday slammed colleague Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV after the latter made a remark about some senators being \u201clapdogs\u201d of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>In a Kapihan press conference in the Manila Hotel, Trillanes said that he found it disappointing how the Senate acted like lapdogs instead of being the last bastion of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He said that some senators who supported the President were only following his orders because they were afraid of him.<\/p>\n<p>Trillanes, former Navy officer, has been tagged as Pres. Duterte\u2019s fiercest critic.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson, former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, disagreed with his colleague.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling his Senate colleagues \u2018cowards\u2019 and \u2018puppets\u2019 wholesale is the darnest thing a senator can do,\u201d Lacson said on his official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson also said that he thought Trillanes was &#8220;out of touch with reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Monday slammed colleague Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV after the latter made a remark about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106781","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=106781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}