{"id":36568,"date":"2014-12-27T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T08:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36568"},"modified":"2014-12-27T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T08:45:05","slug":"vice-gandas-grandfather-passes-away-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/27\/vice-gandas-grandfather-passes-away-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Ganda&#8217;s grandfather passes away on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36579\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/New-Picture7.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36579\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/New-Picture7.bmp\" alt=\"A photo posted on Instagram by Vice Ganda shows the comedian with his grandfather, on the occasion of the latter's 93rd birthday in April this year.\" width=\"382\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/New-Picture7.bmp 382w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/New-Picture7-150x150.bmp 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/New-Picture7-300x300.bmp 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/New-Picture7-144x144.bmp 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo posted on Instagram by Vice Ganda shows the comedian with his grandfather, on the occasion of the latter&#8217;s 93rd birthday in April this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Comedian Vice Ganda announced on the evening of December 25 that his grandfather had passed away earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>During a December 21 interview on the television show &#8220;The Buzz,\u201d Vice said that Gonzalo Dacumos, 93-years-old, was suffering from renal and respiratory failure, and had to be confined in the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>After some days in the ICU, however, Dacumos succumbed to the ailments, as well as other complications brought on by old age.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainer and TV show host \u2013 who grew up in the care of his grandfather \u2013 tweeted on Thursday: &#8220;He&#8217;s gone&#8230; He made sure I was number one before he left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his tweet, Vice was referring his success at the box office, based on the first-day earnings of his latest film &#8220;The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin,&#8221; an entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), which began on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Followers and fans of the comedian responded to the announcement with messages of sympathy and support; tweeting their condolences with the hashtag \u201c#BeStrongViceGanda,\u201d which was \u201ctrending\u201d as of Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Dacumos&#8217; remains were brought to The Ascension Chapels in Quezon City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Comedian Vice Ganda announced on the evening of December 25 that his grandfather had passed away earlier that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568","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=36568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}