{"id":121445,"date":"2017-10-04T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121445"},"modified":"2017-10-04T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:08:13","slug":"bautista-is-next-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/bautista-is-next-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Bautista is next Army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112124\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/220px-Seal_of_the_Philippine_Army.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112124\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/220px-Seal_of_the_Philippine_Army.svg_.png\" alt=\"FILE: Seal of the Philippine_Army.svg (Photo By: Philippine Army, Public Domain)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/220px-Seal_of_the_Philippine_Army.svg_.png 220w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/220px-Seal_of_the_Philippine_Army.svg_-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Seal of the Philippine_Army.svg (Photo By: Philippine Army, Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Major Gen. Rolando Bautista, commander of the Zamboanga Del Sur-based 1st Infantry Division, was named head of the 85,000-strong Philippine Army (PA).<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana saying Bautista&#8217;s appointment as PA chief was signed Wednesday by President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista replaces Lt. Gen. Glorioso Miranda who will be stepping down Thursday, four days before his 56th birthday that marks the\u00a0mandatory retirement age for all military and police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista is a member of Philippine Military Academy Class of 1985 while his predecessor is a member of PMA Class of 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista is former commander of the Presidential Security Group tasked to protect and secure the Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p>He took the helm of the Army&#8217;s 73rd Infantry Battalion and 104th Infantry Brigade before assuming command of the 1st Infantry Division.<em><strong>\u00a0(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Major Gen. Rolando Bautista, commander of the Zamboanga Del Sur-based 1st Infantry Division, was named head of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[17992,26104,26102,22883,26103],"class_list":["post-121445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-defense-secretary-delfin-lorenzana","tag-lt-gen-glorioso-miranda","tag-major-gen-rolando-bautista","tag-philippine-army-pa","tag-zamboanga-del-sur-based-1st-infantry-division","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445","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=121445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}