{"id":64487,"date":"2015-11-10T05:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T11:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=64487"},"modified":"2015-11-10T05:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T11:03:22","slug":"pres-aquino-skips-yolanda-commemoration-attends-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/10\/pres-aquino-skips-yolanda-commemoration-attends-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Aquino skips Yolanda commemoration, attends wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42664\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42664\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino1.jpg\" alt=\" (Photo by Rey Baniquet \/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau \/ PCOO)\" width=\"960\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino1-600x541.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Rey Baniquet \/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau \/ PCOO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The people of Tacloban City, Leyte along with politicians from various parts of the country commemorated yesterday the second anniversary of the super typhoon which took hundreds of lives in the Visayan province.<\/p>\n<p>Two memorial markers were unveiled, one near the Tacloban astrodome and another in the coastal village of Anibong where a ship was beached. Vice President Jejomar Binay was present in the unveiling ceremony, along with his running mate, Sen. Gringo Honasan.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ferdinand \u201cBong Bong\u201d Marcos, kin of Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez and Leyte representative Martin Romualdez, also flew to Tacloban.<\/p>\n<p>The president, on the other hand, did not join the commemoration ceremonies. While other politicians were busy shaking the hands of Taclobanons, President Aquino was rubbing elbows with the guests of Kester Tan, son of businessman Andrew Tan, in his wedding with Kelsey Cheng at Newport City in Pasay. House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras were among the guests.<\/p>\n<p>The president has issued a statement where he asked the public to pray \u201cfor the loved ones we lost, and pay tribute to the soldiers and civilians who placed themselves in danger to help their fellow man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay the memory and lessons of that time inspire us to persevere in building back better, and in living up to the solidarity, resilience and generosity of Filipinos from all walks of life demonstrated not only then, but in all times of challenge and adversity,\u201d President Aquino said through his spokesperson Edwin Lacierda.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, Pres. Aquino also missed the arrival honors ceremony for the Special Action Force group killed in Mamasapano encounter. Aquino went to Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Plant inauguration in Laguna, instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President did not skip the arrival honors today, it presupposes he was originally scheduled to attend it, which was not the case,&#8221; said Abigail Valte, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Tacloban City, Leyte along with politicians from various parts of the country commemorated yesterday the second anniversary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":42664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-64487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-original","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64487","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}