{"id":81579,"date":"2016-09-28T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=81579"},"modified":"2016-09-29T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:05:26","slug":"miriam-defensor-santiago-passes-away-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/09\/28\/miriam-defensor-santiago-passes-away-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Defensor-Santiago passes away at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56666\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMAGE-MDS-cancer-announcement-2July2014-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56666\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMAGE-MDS-cancer-announcement-2July2014-3.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago (Photo from Santiago's website)\" width=\"1038\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMAGE-MDS-cancer-announcement-2July2014-3.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMAGE-MDS-cancer-announcement-2July2014-3-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMAGE-MDS-cancer-announcement-2July2014-3-1024x568.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago (Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/miriam.com.ph\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago&#8217;s website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manila, Philippines\u2014Former Philippine senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago died today, September 29 at 8:52 p.m. at St. Luke&#8217;s Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. She was 71.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the lady senator announced that she was battling a stage 4 lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Defensor-Santiago was born in Iloilo City on June 15, 1945. She served in the Philippine senate from 1995 to 2001 and was re-elected in 2004. She held her senatorial seat until 2016. She also ran for the presidency in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Sen. Santiago said that she died \u201cpeacefully\u201d. Details on her internment will be released by her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manila, Philippines\u2014Former Philippine senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago died today, September 29 at 8:52 p.m. at St. Luke&#8217;s Medical Center in Bonifacio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[1162,9815],"class_list":["post-81579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-miriam-defensor-santiago","tag-obituary","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81579","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=81579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}