{"id":36340,"date":"2014-12-23T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T08:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36340"},"modified":"2014-12-23T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T08:35:30","slug":"alaska-defeats-rain-or-shine-owns-2-1-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/23\/alaska-defeats-rain-or-shine-owns-2-1-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska defeats Rain or Shine, owns 2-1 lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12295\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Alaska Aces official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Alaska-Aces.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Alaska Aces official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Alaska bested Rain or Shine last Monday, 94-78, for a 2-1 lead in the 2015 PBA Philippine Cup semifinals held at the Mall of Asia Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Aces forward Calvin Abueva scored 28 points with 14 rebounds to give his team the momentum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought our defense was really good. I really love the way our guys play defense,\u201d said Alaska head coach Alex Compton. \u201cThe guys really asserted themselves defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the first few minutes of the game, Rain or Shine tried to step up but failed to which the Aces used to their advantage. The Painters posted 0-of-15 from beyond the arc. Their head coach, Yeng Guaio, was also ejected during the 9:16 mark of the third canto following his second technical foul. Beau Belga followed suit with 5:13 remaining in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth game is scheduled on December 25, 4 p.m. at the same venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Alaska bested Rain or Shine last Monday, 94-78, for a 2-1 lead in the 2015 PBA Philippine Cup &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340","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=36340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}