{"id":15852,"date":"2014-06-18T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15852"},"modified":"2014-06-18T18:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:19:49","slug":"psc-suspends-wesleys-monthly-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/18\/psc-suspends-wesleys-monthly-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC suspends Wesley&#8217;s monthly allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15854\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wesley-so.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15854\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wesley-so.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"176\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Following his decision to change allegiance to the United States, Wesely Co&#8217;s P40,000 monthly allowance was suspended by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC).<\/p>\n<p>So, the 20-year-old top Filipino GM have chosen to move from the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">National Chess Federation of the Philippines\u00a0to the US Chess Federation to pursue his dream of landing into the world\u2019s Top 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil there will be a final resolution of the issue, we have decided to hold the allowance of Wesley So starting June,\u201d said PSC Chair Richie Garcia in yesterday\u2019s PSA Forum at the Shakey\u2019s Malate.<\/p>\n<p>But because there is a pending resolution between So and the National Chess Federation of the Philippines, Garcia clarified that the suspension is only temporary.<\/p>\n<p>To continue his jump to US, So would be needing to pay an equivalent fee of 50,000 Euros worth or about P3 million.<\/p>\n<p>If not, he will be barred from participating in all international chess federation\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">FIDE-sanctioned tournaments, including the World Chess Olympiad and the World Championship, for two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, was supposed to lead the country&#8217;s team in competing in this year&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Olympiad in Tromso, Norway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Philippine Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Following his decision to change allegiance to the United States, Wesely Co&#8217;s P40,000 monthly allowance was suspended by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[5596],"class_list":["post-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-wesley-so","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}