{"id":144800,"date":"2018-01-09T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144800"},"modified":"2018-01-09T01:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:26:04","slug":"huge-philippine-procession-secured-tightly-amid-terror-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/09\/huge-philippine-procession-secured-tightly-amid-terror-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Philippine procession secured tightly amid terror fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144811\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ASC_7271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144811\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ASC_7271.jpg\" alt=\"CROWD CONTROL. Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel cordon off the area to control the crowd during the &quot;Traslacion&quot; 2018 at the Quirino Grandstand on Tuesday dawn (Jan. 9, 2018). (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan) \" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ASC_7271.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ASC_7271-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ASC_7271-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ASC_7271-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CROWD CONTROL. Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel cordon off the area to control the crowd during the &#8220;Traslacion&#8221; 2018 at the Quirino Grandstand on Tuesday dawn (Jan. 9, 2018). (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014 A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics has joined an annual procession of a centuries-old black statue of Jesus Christ under extra-tight security after the Philippines came under a disastrous pro-Islamic State group attack last year.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine police and military deployed more than 6,000 personnel, including snipers and bomb squads backed by a surveillance helicopter and drones, to secure the procession of the wooden Black Nazarene on Tuesday along Manila&#8217;s streets. Authorities say no specific terrorist threat has been monitored. More than 600 devotees have been treated mostly for minor injuries and exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of militants laid siege for five months in southern Marawi city, leaving more than 1,100 combatants and civilians dead in the worst IS group-linked attack so far in Asia. Troops crushed the uprising in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014 A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics has joined an annual procession of a centuries-old black statue &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[42429,41958],"class_list":["post-144800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-huge-philippine-procession-secured-tightly-amid-terror-fears","tag-traslacion-2018","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800","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=144800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}