{"id":5821,"date":"2020-01-05T04:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2020-01-05T04:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:09:38","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-we-must-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5821","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: We must speak out."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em><strong>As seen on the August 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"> My family has gone through the worst of martial law: <br><br>\u25cf Two-year solitary confinement of my father without charges or legal processes just because he belonged to political opposition and had armed rebellion capability with his war veterans\u2019 group; <br>\u25cf Purposeful killing of our export business by government officials on orders of Ferdinand Marcos; <br>\u25cf Suspected poisoning of my father while in detention leading to his death six months after forced release etc., <br><br>I am first-hand witness as to what Duterte&#8217;s antics can become\u2026 <br><br>At 72 years of age &amp; burdened with heart problems, what more should I be doing to live a relevant life? Should I cower in fear or speak out the truth as I see it? What can the Duterte administration do to me? Kill or imprison me?<br><br>So what else would be new?<br><br><strong> \u2501 Name withheld upon request<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on the August 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel My family has gone through the worst of martial law: \u25cf Two-year solitary confinement of my father without charges or legal processes just because he belonged to political opposition and had armed rebellion capability with his war veterans\u2019 group; \u25cf Purposeful killing of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821"}],"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\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}