{"id":24295,"date":"2014-08-30T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24295"},"modified":"2014-08-30T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T08:51:13","slug":"pres-aquino-to-be-chiz-best-man-in-marriage-to-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/30\/pres-aquino-to-be-chiz-best-man-in-marriage-to-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres Aquino to be best man in Chiz-Heart wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20387\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heart_Chiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20387\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heart_Chiz.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Evangelista and Chiz Escudero at SONA 2014. (Facebook photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heart_Chiz.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Heart_Chiz-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heart Evangelista and Chiz Escudero at SONA 2014. (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Chiz Escudero has chosen no less than President Benigno Aquino III to be his best man when exchanges \u201cI do\u2019s\u201d with actress Heart Evangelista on February 14, 2015; a date which has been tentatively set by the couple.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview at Evangelista\u2019s residence, Escudero told reporters: \u201cThe President has agreed to be best man at my wedding, not a [principal] sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAyaw na magninong sa kasal, kasi may pamahiin na hindi makakasal kapag nagninong ang binata (He refused to be a principal sponsor on account of the superstition that a bachelor who stands as principal sponsor will never marry),\u201d Escudero jokingly said.<\/p>\n<p>Escudero added that he asked the President to stand as his best man two months before he even proposed to Evangelista; an even t which took place last Saturday at the Escuderos\u2019 hometown of Buhatan, in the Philippine province of Sorsogon.<\/p>\n<p>On his choice of best man, Escudero said that the President has been one of his \u201cclosest friends for over 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added his personal opinion of the President\u2019s character: \u201cPresident Aquino perhaps is the most honest President we ever had, more than anyone else, maybe even more than his mother simply because of the availability of the technology. P-Noy has stood up to the scrutiny in modern times where technology has been available and everyone has a camera in hand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Escudero, 44, likewise said that he wanted a &#8220;new start&#8221; in his marriage to Evangelista, 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to change everything I did from my previous wedding, that\u2019s why I am not getting anyone from my wedding sponsors in my first marriage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chiz Escudero has chosen no less than President Benigno Aquino III to be his best man when exchanges \u201cI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,46],"tags":[2893,7620,2892],"class_list":["post-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment-ph","tag-chiz-escudero","tag-heart-chiz-wedding","tag-heart-evangelista","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","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=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}