{"id":95097,"date":"2017-03-22T20:48:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95097"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:48:37","slug":"pres-dutertes-birthday-wishes-more-strength-time-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/22\/pres-dutertes-birthday-wishes-more-strength-time-with-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Duterte&#8217;s birthday wishes: More strength, time with family"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95098\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17353660_1666806236682364_9130552819682686998_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95098\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17353660_1666806236682364_9130552819682686998_n.jpg\" alt=\"The President, who will be turning 72 on March 28, said that 24 hours is not really enough for the presidency, unless one wants to sleep more than just about four hours. (Photo: Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17353660_1666806236682364_9130552819682686998_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17353660_1666806236682364_9130552819682686998_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17353660_1666806236682364_9130552819682686998_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The President, who will be turning 72 on March 28, said that 24 hours is not really enough for the presidency, unless one wants to sleep more than just about four hours. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/presidentialcom\/\">Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s birthday wishes are simple \u2013 more strength to complete his work and a quiet time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So my wish really, my prayer to God is that bigyan niya ako ng konting lakas na lang to do our \u2013work, time because it is needed,&#8221; he said during a press briefing held at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport upon arriving from his official visits to Myanmar and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The President, who will be turning 72 on March 28, said that 24 hours is not really enough for the presidency, unless one wants to sleep more than just about four hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only ask God that give me a little bit of time, a little strength to surmount the problems of the country and that I\u2019d be able, not really to solve but maybe mitigate some of the rigors of governance,\u201d Duterte said<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the only gift he would like on his birthday is time with his loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be very glad to spend my time with my newest grandson Stone and the rest of my children and grandchildren. That would have been the greatest gift that I can ask in this planet. Iyon sa akin tama na,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said that he could no longer ask for more since God has already given him everything<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaibigay na ng Diyos ang lahat ang dapat ko. I have reached the highest \u2013the apex of anybody\u2019s dream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would also offer a prayer for the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNakuha ko na lahat. No more gifts to \u2013except maybe a prayer to God for my country,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s birthday wishes are simple \u2013 more strength to complete his work and a quiet time with his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[16970,13135],"class_list":["post-95097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-birthday-wish","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95097","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=95097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}