{"id":8620,"date":"2014-05-03T01:54:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2014-05-03T01:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:54:55","slug":"farinas-draws-ire-from-netizens-after-selfie-with-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/03\/farinas-draws-ire-from-netizens-after-selfie-with-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fari\u00f1as draws ire from netizens after &#8216;selfie&#8217; with Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ilocos Norte Congressman Rodolfo &#8216;Rudy&#8217; Fari\u00f1as drew ire from netizens after a video of his visit to the Vatican was released&#8211;showing how he managed to get a &#8220;selfie&#8221; with Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/nUyofpiAGi\/embed\/\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video (check out the post from <a href=\"http:\/\/thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/honorable-congressman-farinas-doing.html?spref=fb\">The Pinoy Catholic<\/a>), Fari\u00f1as was approaching the Pontiff with Mercedes Tuazon, the Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8628\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8628\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-1.png\" alt=\"Ilocos Norte Congressman Rodolfo Farinas approaches Pope Francis with PH Ambassador Mercedes Tuazon. \/ PCI screenshot\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-1.png 1366w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-1-1024x575.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ilocos Norte Congressman Rodolfo Farinas approaches Pope Francis with PH Ambassador Mercedes Tuazon. \/ PCI screenshot<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8629\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8629\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-2.png\" alt=\"Ilocos Norte Congressman Rodolfo Farinas poses for a 'selfie' with Pope Francis. \/ PCI screenshot\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-2.png 1366w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-2-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farinas-2-1024x575.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ilocos Norte Congressman Rodolfo Farinas poses for a &#8216;selfie&#8217; with Pope Francis. \/ PCI screenshot<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching the Pope, Tuazon extended her hand to pay her respects to the Pontiff when Fari\u00f1as got in between them and even bumped Tuazon&#8217;s head with his hand as he posed with the Pope for a selfie.<\/p>\n<p>Fari\u00f1as calls the photo as &#8220;the selfie of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netizens everywhere are showing their distaste of the congressman&#8217;s actions in front of the Ambassador and most importantly in front of the Pope himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilocos Norte Congressman Rodolfo &#8216;Rudy&#8217; Fari\u00f1as drew ire from netizens after a video of his visit to the Vatican was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[2773,2774,2775,2300,2772,1851,1829],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-congressman","tag-ilocos-norte","tag-mercedes-tuazon","tag-pope-francis","tag-rodolfo-farinas","tag-selfie","tag-vatican","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","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=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}