{"id":267896,"date":"2020-09-06T05:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T09:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=267896"},"modified":"2020-09-06T05:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T09:47:30","slug":"manila-bay-makeover-to-benefit-filipinos-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/06\/manila-bay-makeover-to-benefit-filipinos-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila Bay makeover to benefit Filipinos&#8217; mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242133\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/053a7235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-242133 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/053a7235-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/053a7235-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/053a7235-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/053a7235-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: This family spends a simple weekend bonding activity at the Baywalk along Roxas Boulevard in Manila Bay on Sunday (Jan. 12, 2020). (PNA photo by Oliver Marquez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque defended the move to fill Manila Bay with artificial white sand, noting this could boost the public&#8217;s mental health in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sa gitna ng pandemya, kailangan din pangalagaan ang<\/em>\u00a0mental health. I think\u00a0<em>iyong pagpapasyal sa mga lugar kagaya ng<\/em>\u00a0Manila Bay\u00a0<em>na may<\/em>\u00a0white beach,<em>\u00a0hindi mo maku-<\/em>quantify<em>\u00a0ang epekto niya pagdating sa<\/em>\u00a0mental health\u00a0<em>ng ating mga kababayan, &#8216;yong kapayapaan na mag-isip at &#8216;yong<\/em>\u00a0break (Amid the pandemic, we also need to take care of our mental health. I think walking along places like Manila Bay with white beach, you can&#8217;t quantify its effect to the mental health, the peace of mind and break)&#8221; he said during an ambush interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that the makeover would further boost Manila Bay&#8217;s image, which is famed for its beautiful sunset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the white beach there, it would be one of the most picturesque sceneries in the whole world,&#8221; Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque is confident that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) studied the white sand project or else it would not have pushed through with it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DENR, the &#8220;white sand&#8221; used in the Manila Bay beach area along Roxas Boulevard is crushed dolomite boulders extracted from Cebu.<\/p>\n<p>The department and the Manila Bay Task Force are on Phase 1 of the Manila Bay beach nourishment project, with the overlaying of sand expected to be finished by September 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque defended the move to fill Manila Bay with artificial white sand, noting this could boost &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":242133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267896","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=267896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267897,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267896\/revisions\/267897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}