{"id":83716,"date":"2016-12-14T04:38:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=83716"},"modified":"2016-12-14T04:38:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:38:25","slug":"roman-hailed-leading-global-thinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/14\/roman-hailed-leading-global-thinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman hailed as \u2018Leading Global Thinker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75728\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75728\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Policy lauded Roman\u2019s influence to \u201cpass an anti-discrimination bill that has been rejected for more than a decade.\u201d (Facebook photo)\" width=\"504\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines.jpg 504w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Geraldine-Roman-first-transgender-politician-elected-in-the-Philippines-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign Policy lauded Roman\u2019s influence to \u201cpass an anti-discrimination bill that has been rejected for more than a decade.\u201d (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bataan Representative Geraldine Roman on Monday was recognized as one of the Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers by American publication Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Roman received the award for being the \u201cfirst openly transgender politician\u201d in a conservative country like the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy lauded Roman\u2019s influence to \u201cpass an anti-discrimination bill that has been rejected for more than a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other notable personalities recognized by Foreign Policy magazine include former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen and former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon<\/p>\n<p>Also in the list is Philippine senator Leila De Lima who was recognized by Foreign Policy for \u201cstanding up to an extremist leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy\u2019s Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers have \u201csubverted traditional power structures to craft solutions to social, economic and environmental problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bataan Representative Geraldine Roman on Monday was recognized as one of the Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers by American publication &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-deby-mangabat","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83716","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=83716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}