{"id":42085,"date":"2015-02-12T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42085"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:04:37","slug":"publisher-editor-of-filipino-reporter-libertito-pelayo-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/12\/publisher-editor-of-filipino-reporter-libertito-pelayo-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Publisher-editor of Filipino reporter, Libertito Pelayo dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42089\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pelayo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42089\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pelayo-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pelayo-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pelayo-1.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Editor-in-chief and publisher of the Filipino Reporter, Libertito Pelayo died on February 3 at the age of 78 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBert passed on peacefully at 12:53 a.m. after having been given Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick,&#8221; said his wife, Dr. Linda R. Pelayo.<\/p>\n<p>Pelayo is a veteran reporter who founded the Filipino Reporter in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>He was a seasoned journalist who graduated from the Far Eastern University&#8217;s Institute of Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>He was honored by FEU with the\u00a0\u201cMost Distinguished Alumnus Award\u201d in the mid-90s for his journalistic success.<\/p>\n<p>He also became an honorary member of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America during an alumni homecoming at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>He was the only non-UP graduated awarded for his exemplary work as a journalist as well as his consistent support for the UPAAA.<\/p>\n<p>Pelayo is survived by his wife Linda; children Joy, L.P. and Patrick; son-in-law Christopher McCarthy; daughter-in-law Dr. Tessa del Carmen-Pelayo; and grandchildren Tyler, Amanda and Brett McCarthy; and Darcy Ann, twins Dorian Tess and Reeve Patrick Pelayo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Editor-in-chief and publisher of the Filipino Reporter, Libertito Pelayo died on February 3 at the age of 78 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085","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=42085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}