{"id":113023,"date":"2017-08-20T23:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T03:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113023"},"modified":"2017-08-20T23:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T03:52:26","slug":"wushu-artist-parantac-misses-podium-in-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/20\/wushu-artist-parantac-misses-podium-in-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Wushu artist Parantac misses podium in SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113026\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/420px-Wushu_Chinese_characters.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113026\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/420px-Wushu_Chinese_characters.svg_.png\" alt=\"Wushu in Chinese (Photo By White whirlwind - Self, Public Domain)\" width=\"420\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/420px-Wushu_Chinese_characters.svg_.png 420w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/420px-Wushu_Chinese_characters.svg_-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wushu in Chinese (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=49062305\">Photo By White whirlwind &#8211; Self, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; Daniel Parantac failed to defend the men&#8217;s taijijian title on Sunday in the 29th Southeast Asian Games wushu competition at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center Hall 5.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old native of Baguio, who won the silver medal in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, finished fourth with a score of 9.56 points.<\/p>\n<p>The gold medal went to Malaysian Jack Chang Loh, who scored 9.67 points, while Indonesian Bobie Valentinus scored 9.65 points to claim the silver medal. Singaporean Jun Kai Chan settled for the bronze medal with a score of 9.62 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis overall performance was very good, but he had difficulty in his landing in the first part that prompted the judges to deduct points from his total score,\u201d said coach Samson Co.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad those points were not deducted, he could have surpassed the 9.67 points by the gold-medal winner. Sayang. I think there\u2019s also pressure on his part because he really wants to win his third (SEA Games) gold medal,\u201d added the multi-titled coach.<\/p>\n<p>Parantac, who won bronze medals in two World Wushu Championships, is scheduled to compete in the compulsory taiquan event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; Daniel Parantac failed to defend the men&#8217;s taijijian title on Sunday in the 29th Southeast Asian Games &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":113026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[21546,21545],"class_list":["post-113023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-parantac","tag-wushu","mauthors-jean-malanum","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113023","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=113023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}