{"id":29978,"date":"2014-10-29T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29978"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:08:55","slug":"manny-pacquiao-to-host-billiards-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/29\/manny-pacquiao-to-host-billiards-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao to host billiards championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6526\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pacquiao-muscles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6526\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pacquiao-muscles-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Manny Pacquiao is in fighting form for Saturday's bout with Bradley. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Manny Pacquiao official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pacquiao-muscles-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pacquiao-muscles.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manny Pacquiao is in fighting form for Saturday&#8217;s bout with Bradley. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Manny Pacquiao official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Aside from boxing and basketball, Manny Pacquiao is also a fan of billiards. Thus, he was selected to host the $150,000 (around P6.7 million) Philippine Open 10-ball Championship set to happen on December 8 to 16 at SM City in General Santos City.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller tournament was held last September wherein Thorsten Hohmann was announced as the individual champion while Jeffrey Ignacio and Jeffrey de Luna won the doubles\u2019 title.<\/p>\n<p>Hohmann will defend his crown against Shane Van Boening. Meanwhile, joining Boening will be Mika Immonen, Rodney Morris, and John Morra.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the singles event will bag $50,000 while the doubles champion will get $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Efren \u201cBata\u201d Reyes and Francisco \u201cDjango\u201d Bustamante will team-up for the doubles and will play as well in the singles event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Aside from boxing and basketball, Manny Pacquiao is also a fan of billiards. Thus, he was selected to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2031],"class_list":["post-29978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-pacquiao","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29978","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=29978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}