{"id":325,"date":"2009-10-16T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T07:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=325"},"modified":"2009-10-16T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T07:32:34","slug":"filipino-general-is-afraid-of-getting-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Filipino General is afraid of getting wet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in the present-day Armed Forces of the Philippines! The General is afraid of getting wet. He probably must be wearing a pair of Italian Bellucci shoes for which he paid $2,000 out of government funds.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, didn&#8217;t General MacArthur, President. Sergio Osmena and Carlos P. Romulo wade in the water in the Gulf of Leyte during WW II?<\/p>\n<p>This embarrassing scene was played on Philippine television when Brigadier General Marciano Ilagan was carried on someone else\u2019s back so he wouldn\u2019t get wet when he stepped out of a boat. The American officer on the other hand waded on the water and without any help. See the symbolism on why the Philippines have problems? \u2013 ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only in the present-day Armed Forces of the Philippines! The General is afraid of getting wet. He probably must be wearing a pair of Italian Bellucci shoes for which he paid $2,000 out of government funds. By the way, didn&#8217;t General MacArthur, President. Sergio Osmena and Carlos P. Romulo wade in the water in the [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}