{"id":144702,"date":"2018-01-08T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144702"},"modified":"2018-01-08T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:57:10","slug":"palace-expresses-grief-for-passing-of-malaya-publisher-jake-macasaet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/08\/palace-expresses-grief-for-passing-of-malaya-publisher-jake-macasaet\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace expresses grief for passing of Malaya publisher Jake Macasaet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144705\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malaya-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144705\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malaya-logo.png\" alt=\"Roque said Macasaet was a maverick who will be missed not only by him but by the nation. (Photo from http:\/\/www.malaya.com.ph\/)\" width=\"537\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malaya-logo.png 537w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malaya-logo-300x61.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roque said Macasaet was a maverick who will be missed not only by him but by the nation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaya.com.ph\/\">(Photo from http:\/\/www.malaya.com.ph\/)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Malacanang on Monday expressed deepest sympathies to the family of veteran columnist and Malaya newspaper publisher Amado \u2018Jake\u2019 Macasaet who died on Sunday. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condole with the family of Jake Macasaet. Jake as you know is a long-time publisher of Malaya,\u201d Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said during a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Roque described the death of Macasaet as a \u201cbig loss for Philippine journalism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from being active in publishing Malaya and being active in the mosquito press during the martial law years, Jake was best known for wanting to be cited in contempt rather than be silenced even by the court,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque recalled that in one Supreme Court decision, Macasaet was cited in contempt because of his remarks about the so-called \u2018Majestic 7,\u2019 or alleged judges in cahoots with alleged corrupt SC justices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe preferred to be cited in contempt, rather than surrender his independence as a journalist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said Macasaet was a maverick who will be missed not only by him but by the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Malacanang on Monday expressed deepest sympathies to the family of veteran columnist and Malaya newspaper publisher Amado \u2018Jake\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[42368,42369],"class_list":["post-144702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-palace-expresses-grief-for-passing-of-malaya-publisher-jake-macasaet","tag-veteran-columnist-and-malaya-newspaper-publisher-amado-jake-macasaet","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144702","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=144702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}