{"id":38416,"date":"2015-01-15T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38416"},"modified":"2015-01-15T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:56:06","slug":"from-across-the-seas-elderly-return-to-philippines-to-catch-glimpse-of-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/15\/from-across-the-seas-elderly-return-to-philippines-to-catch-glimpse-of-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"From across the seas, elderly return to Philippines to catch glimpse of pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38326\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Pope_Francis_WikiPhoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38326\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Pope_Francis_WikiPhoto-e1421304951993.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis (Wikipedia Photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis (Wikipedia Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Forty elderly Filipinos living in the United States and Canada, mostly wheel-chair assisted, have made the long trip home in hopes of catching a glimpse of the pope during his visit to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Catching a connecting flight from Taiwan, they said that while they started out as strangers, they have banded together on the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Pacita Venezuela is heading with her husband and her 81-year-old mother Conchita to their hometown in Tacloban in eastern Leyte province. Francis is scheduled to visit Leyte on Saturday to celebrate a Mass and have lunch with survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the province on Nov. 8, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my biggest opportunity to see him in Tacloban, and it is very emotional because of what happened in Tacloban, it affected my family and relatives,&#8221; said Venezuela, who has lived in Canada since 1990 and still has siblings in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thank God,&#8221; she said, &#8220;that Pope Francis, he had a heart to see the people of Tacloban and the Philippines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Forty elderly Filipinos living in the United States and Canada, mostly wheel-chair assisted, have made the long trip &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-johnson-lai","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416","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=38416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}