{"id":2529,"date":"2013-04-03T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:37:37","slug":"who-is-bam-aquino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"Who is Bam Aquino?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is not only a look-alike of his uncle, the late Senator Ninoy Aquino, he is also a true-blooded Aquino being the son of the youngest brother of Ninoy, Paul Aquino.\u00a0He talks fast like Ninoy and is very articulate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bam is in the Team Pinoy senatorial ticket, and he pulled a surprise by having edged up into the winning circle based on the latest polls of the SWS.<\/p>\n<p>With Bam in, there is the possibility of 12-0 for the P-Noy&#8217;s team given a few more weeks or two months of campaigning before the elections.\u00a0As P-Noy&#8217;s popularity rises so does the chances of his candidates.\u00a0 Will the Sabah stand-off serve as the spoiler?\u00a0 Most likely no.<\/p>\n<p>Bam calls himself a social entrepreneur.\u00a0 He is well involved into programs to help the lot of the poor, especially women.\u00a0 Bam is an accomplished student \u00a0having graduated <strong><em>summa cum laude<\/em><\/strong> in Management Engineering from the <strong>Ateneo de Manila University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His academic record puts him ahead of his uncle in terms of educational preparation. To come close to the shadow of Ninoy, however, he must have physical, emotional and moral courage to face the challenges that will confront him in public life.\u00a0His courage of conviction must be without doubt regardless of its repercussions to himself and his family.\u00a0That made Ninoy a cut above the rest, above many of us.\u00a0Country before self. Bam would be a worthy addition to the Senate and Philippine Sentinel endorses him to all Overseas Absentee Voters (OAV) during the next senatorial elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is not only a look-alike of his uncle, the late Senator Ninoy Aquino, he is also a true-blooded Aquino being the son of the youngest brother of Ninoy, Paul Aquino.\u00a0He talks fast like Ninoy and is very articulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}