{"id":242141,"date":"2020-01-14T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242141"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:30:12","slug":"andanar-praises-twink-macaraigs-freethinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/14\/andanar-praises-twink-macaraigs-freethinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Andanar praises Twink Macaraig\u2019s \u2018freethinking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90448\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PH10-081716_JARL1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90448\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PH10-081716_JARL1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PH10-081716_JARL1-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PH10-081716_JARL1-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andanar hailed Macaraig for facing adversities \u201cwith smiles and laughter\u201d and for continuing her duty and passion for journalism, despite her years-long battle with cancer. (File Photo: TOTO LOZANO\/PPD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar offered his condolences to the family of veteran journalist Twink Macaraig who passed away on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe mourn the passing of one of the Philippines\u2019 veteran journalists and columnists, Twink Macaraig,\u201d Andanar said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are with the entire media community, her friends, and her family as they grieve the loss of this remarkable person,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>News5 confirmed in a Facebook post the death of Macaraig, who first battled cancer in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Macaraig served as a news anchor for television networks TV5 and ABS-CBN.<\/p>\n<p>She was also known for her columns published in The Philippine Star and Esquire Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>She was also the Filipino bureau chief of Channel News Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Macaraig also became a part-time faculty lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Andanar hailed Macaraig for facing adversities \u201cwith smiles and laughter\u201d and for continuing her duty and passion for journalism, despite her years-long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>He said Macaraig\u2019s \u201cfreethinking\u201d would always be remembered by the entire nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s remember Ms. Macaraig\u2019s freethinking and devotion towards addressing and raising awareness of societal problems and issues in order to get people to cast aside their apathy,\u201d Andanar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer love for novels and publications was something that manifested through her foundation of the oldest living book club in the Philippines,\u201d he added.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar offered his condolences to the family of veteran journalist Twink Macaraig &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":90448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242141","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=242141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242142,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242141\/revisions\/242142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}