{"id":76233,"date":"2016-05-21T06:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=76233"},"modified":"2016-05-21T06:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T10:45:44","slug":"president-aquino-joins-senator-elect-leila-de-limas-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/21\/president-aquino-joins-senator-elect-leila-de-limas-thanksgiving-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"President Aquino joins Senator-elect Leila de Lima\u2019s thanksgiving dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76234\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PH2-051916-BA_wall-street-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76234\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PH2-051916-BA_wall-street-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Benigno &quot;Noynoy&quot; Aquino III the Malaca\u00f1an Palace.  (Photo: Benhur Arcayan\/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"620\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PH2-051916-BA_wall-street-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PH2-051916-BA_wall-street-2-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Benigno &#8220;Noynoy&#8221; Aquino III the Malaca\u00f1an Palace.<br \/>(Photo: Benhur Arcayan\/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 President Benigno S. Aquino III attended on Thursday night Senator-elect Leila de Lima\u2019s thanksgiving dinner at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City, assuring the former Justice secretary of his support as she begins her career as a legislator.<\/p>\n<p>Since De Lima is a newbie at the Senate, other veteran legislators could give her advice, President Aquino said in his brief speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSiguro, the only sad part is itong kampanya was the far point. When you get there, it won\u2019t be as far. And if you\u2019ve been there and working, it would be interesting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m sure a lot of the dreams of our people go with you, and their prayers are also with you as you embark in this new part of your work on behalf of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Lima, a member of the Liberal Party, was one of the 12 senators proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Other administration-backed senators who won during the May 9 elections were Franklin Drilon, Joel Villanueva, Riza Hontiveros, Francisco Pangilinan, and Ralph Recto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 President Benigno S. Aquino III attended on Thursday night Senator-elect Leila de Lima\u2019s thanksgiving dinner at the Quezon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3212,5244],"class_list":["post-76233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-aquino","tag-president-aquino","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233","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=76233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}