{"id":160035,"date":"2018-04-15T06:21:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=160035"},"modified":"2018-04-15T06:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:21:28","slug":"davao-city-to-host-2019-palarong-pambansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/15\/davao-city-to-host-2019-palarong-pambansa\/","title":{"rendered":"Davao City to host 2019 Palarong Pambansa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_159946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159946\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29790193_1699268970156087_4014464916797782633_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159946\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29790193_1699268970156087_4014464916797782633_n.png\" alt=\"(Photo: Palarong Pambansa 2018\/Facebook)\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29790193_1699268970156087_4014464916797782633_n.png 476w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29790193_1699268970156087_4014464916797782633_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29790193_1699268970156087_4014464916797782633_n-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year&#8217;s Palarong Pambansa hasn&#8217;t even started (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2017PalarongPambansa\/photos\/a.1323126491103672.1073741826.1323121854437469\/1699268970156087\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2017PalarongPambansa\/\">Palarong Pambansa 2018\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>VIGAN, Ilocos Sur<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; This year&#8217;s Palarong Pambansa hasn&#8217;t even started.<\/p>\n<p>But the host for next year&#8217;s competition is now known.<\/p>\n<p>Davao City was named the host of the 2019 &#8220;Palaro&#8221; as confirmed during the pre-event press conference of the 2018 games at the Vigan Convention Center here on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The said city, the hometown of President Rodrigo Duterte, got the nod over the bids of Zamboanga Del Sur, General Santos City, and Misamis Occidental.<\/p>\n<p>According to city assistant administrator Lawrence Batindig, the successful hosting of the 2018 DAVRAA Meet helped the city land the coveted Palarong Pambansa hosting rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Napakita naman natin doon sa presentation natin that very successful po yung staging ng DAVRAA doon sa Davao,&#8221; Batindig said.<\/p>\n<p>He even bared that the said city would also host next year&#8217;s DAVRAA games, giving the Davaoenos an early glimpse of what to expect for the Palaro.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DepEd secretary Leonor Briones clarified that Duterte did not influence the decision to name his hometown the 2019 Palaro host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIGAN, Ilocos Sur\u00a0&#8212; This year&#8217;s Palarong Pambansa hasn&#8217;t even started. But the host for next year&#8217;s competition is now known. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":159946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2445,49695,2444],"class_list":["post-160035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-davao-city","tag-palarong-pambans","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160035","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=160035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}