{"id":50981,"date":"2015-06-01T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50981"},"modified":"2015-06-01T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T07:44:47","slug":"soldier-athletes-to-give-all-this-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/01\/soldier-athletes-to-give-all-this-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier-athletes to give all this SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50999\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/seagames-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50999 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/seagames-2015-e1433144672497.jpg\" alt=\"28th SEA Games in Singapore (Facebook photo)\" width=\"680\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/seagames-2015-e1433144672497.jpg 680w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/seagames-2015-e1433144672497-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">28th SEA Games in Singapore (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is expecting its soldier-athletes to perform well in this year&#8217;s Southeast Asia (SEA) Games which will be held in Singapore from June 5 to 16.<\/p>\n<p>Around 50 active-duty troopers are part of the 459 Filipino contingent to the 2015 SEA Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have high hopes (that) they will be bringing home gold medals,&#8221; AFP public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the military participants also vowed to work hard to exceed their previous sports accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP&#8217;s soldier-athletes will be competing in 14 sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be utilizing their military and sports training in order to make this a reality and give honor to the country,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2013 SEA Games in Myanmar, the Philippines brought home 29 gold, 34 silver and 37 bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>That was only good for a 7th place finish and considered the country&#8217;s worst SEA Games performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is expecting its soldier-athletes to perform well in this year&#8217;s Southeast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50981","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=50981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}