{"id":23345,"date":"2014-08-23T18:31:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23345"},"modified":"2014-08-23T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:36:37","slug":"armed-woman-out-to-scare-pnoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/23\/armed-woman-out-to-scare-pnoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed woman out to \u2018scare\u2019 PNoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; An armed woman recently went to Malacanang to force President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III to step down from his office.<\/p>\n<p>Flora Pineda, a 36-year-old domestic helper, said that she could no longer bear to witness the suffering of many poor Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>Pineda did not get past the presidential guards. Her pistol was seen and she was taken immediately to the guardhouse for interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, it was not her intention to bring harm to anyone. Rather, she carried a gun to \u201cscare\u201d President Aquino.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PSG, she was carrying a \u201ccaliber 45.\u201d Later investigations showed that the weapon \u2013 an M1911 \u2013 was fully loaded. Pineda told the reporters that she got it from her brother who was a Marine.<\/p>\n<p>The PSG then took her to Manila Police District (MDP) headquarters. There, Pineda expressed her disappointment in the current poverty situation in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she was mentally unstable, Pineda replied, \u201cYes, but that\u2019s no reason for me not to tell the government what the poor are going through. I am poor, too, and I want all, not only the President, to know that I want change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police brought her to Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center to check if Pineda really\u00a0is mentally ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; An armed woman recently went to Malacanang to force President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III to step down from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[7511,978],"class_list":["post-23345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-armed-woman","tag-malacanang","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345","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=23345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}