{"id":238939,"date":"2019-12-02T01:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=238939"},"modified":"2019-12-02T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:20:18","slug":"boy-abundas-nanay-lesing-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/02\/boy-abundas-nanay-lesing-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Abunda\u2019s Nanay Lesing passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v5.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baysayeasternsamar\/photos\/a.982324678634805\/1216032471930690\/?type=3\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baysayeasternsamar\/photos\/a.982324678634805\/1216032471930690\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Puno hin kasubo nga iginpapahibaro han magbugto nga BOY ngan MARIA FE sugad man han ira bug-os nga pamilya, nga&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baysayeasternsamar\/\">Maria Fe R. Abunda Baysay Eastern Samar Congressional Diaries<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baysayeasternsamar\/photos\/a.982324678634805\/1216032471930690\/?type=3\">Sunday, December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Licerna Romerica Abunda, or more known as Boy Abunda\u2019s Nanay Lesing, died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>Nanay Lesing passed away on Sunday, December 1. This was announced by Boy\u2019s sister and Eastern Samar Congresswoman Maria Fe Abunda in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The said post also states that a funeral mass will be held starting Monday, December 2 at the Arlington Memorial Chapels in Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>With the whole post written in Waray, the congresswoman mentioned that the late Nanay Lesing had also served the public as a teacher, councilor, and mayor.<\/p>\n<p>In the birthday episode of \u201cThe Bottomline\u201d in October, the King of Talk became emotional when he was asked how is his mother. He bravely revealed that during that time, his Nanay Lesing, who was suffering from dementia, was in the hospital for two weeks, adding, \u201cshe&#8217;s the center of my life and I hope she&#8217;s not suffering. &#8216;<em>Yun lang naman ang gusto ko sa nanay <\/em>(That&#8217;s my only wish for my mom). She&#8217;s turning 91 in January, <em>huwag lang masaktan <\/em>(and I hope she doesn&#8217;t suffer).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, the TV host was really emotional on talking about losing the presence of his mother. He said, \u201cI will be honest, I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to live my life without the presence of my mother. <em>Pero katulad ng maraming sugal sa buhay ko, susuungin ko <\/em>(But just like the many risks in my life, I will go through it)\u00a0because that&#8217;s the only way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boy is known for his extreme love for his mother which was recognized by his fellow TV personalities as well. He even released a book called \u201cMake Your Nanay Proud\u201d in 2014, and founded the \u201cMake Your Nanay Proud (MYNP) Foundation\u201d in honor of his beloved Nanay Lesing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puno hin kasubo nga iginpapahibaro han magbugto nga BOY ngan MARIA FE sugad man han ira bug-os nga pamilya, nga&#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":238941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,54365,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-instagram","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-arlnie-colleene-talain-singca","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238939","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=238939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238946,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238939\/revisions\/238946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}