{"id":49750,"date":"2015-05-18T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49750"},"modified":"2015-05-18T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T08:04:39","slug":"dingdong-dantes-will-not-run-in-2016-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/18\/dingdong-dantes-will-not-run-in-2016-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingdong Dantes will not run in 2016 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dingdong-dantes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12452\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dingdong-dantes-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of @dongdantes on Instagram\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dingdong-dantes-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dingdong-dantes-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dingdong-dantes.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of @dongdantes on Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Actor Dingdong Dantes denied rumors that he will run for a public office in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Dantes said that aside from his work as an actor and as a\u00a0National Youth Commission (NYC) commissioner-at-large, he is also preparing to be a father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already categorically declined that. I&#8217;m not running. Nakikita naman natin there are more important issues more than my reconsideration. Bukod sa trabaho sa NYC, I&#8217;m a soon to be father,&#8221; Dantes said.<\/p>\n<p>(I already categorically declined that. I&#8217;m not running. We already saw that there are more \u00a0important issues more than my reconsideration. Aside from my work in NYC, I&#8217;m soon to be father.)<\/p>\n<p>Dantes made the statement following rumors that he is being selected by the ruling Liberal Party for its 2016 senatorial line-up.<\/p>\n<p>He was rumored to be chosen along withManila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno and Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista.<\/p>\n<p>The actor added that being a commissioner-at-large is already enough for him to prove that he could be of service to the country.<\/p>\n<p>I think all of us have a shot in nation building and public service&#8230;We have different opportunities. Ito po yung pagkakataon natin. (This is our chance.) We are focused on this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Actor Dingdong Dantes denied rumors that he will run for a public office in 2016. Dantes said that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49750","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=49750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}