{"id":163498,"date":"2018-05-13T04:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163498"},"modified":"2018-05-13T04:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T08:01:34","slug":"ex-senate-president-edgardo-angara-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/13\/ex-senate-president-edgardo-angara-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Senate President Edgardo Angara dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48625\" style=\"width: 3216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48625\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr.jpg\" alt=\"Former senator Edgardo Angara Sr. (senate.gov.ph)\" width=\"3216\" height=\"2136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr.jpg 3216w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edgardo-angara-sr-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3216px) 100vw, 3216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Former senator Edgardo Angara Sr. (Photo: Senate.gov.ph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Former Senate President Edgardo Angara passed away on Sunday from an \u201capparent heart attack.\u201d He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by his son Senator Sonny Angara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad to say my father former Sen Edgardo Javier Angara passed on from this life this morning at the age of 83, from an apparent heart attack,\u201d the younger Angara said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Angara said they are still arranging funeral arrangements for his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask for prayers for the repose of his soul,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Angara, who served as senator from 1987 to 1995 and from 2001 to 2013, was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as special envoy to the European Union in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He ran for vice president in 1998 but lost to then senator Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>Angara was part of former President Joseph Estrada\u2019s Cabinet as Agriculture Secretary from 1999 to 2001 and Executive Secretary in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Former Senate President Edgardo Angara passed away on Sunday from an \u201capparent heart attack.\u201d He was 83. This was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":48625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[3663],"class_list":["post-163498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-edgardo-angara","mauthors-benjamin-nathaniel-bondoc","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163498","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=163498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}