{"id":6029,"date":"2020-01-30T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2020-01-30T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:15:56","slug":"former-philippine-president-benigno-aquinos-luxury-sports-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6029","title":{"rendered":"Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino\u2019s luxury sports car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong><em>As seen on the November 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel<br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><br>The 50-year-old bachelor said he sold his old BMW and took out a personal loan to buy the Porsche, which he said allowed him a relaxing drive amid his gargantuan responsibilities.<br><br>\u201cI was happy with the deal because its mileage was less than 10,000 kilometres,\u201d Aquino said of the pre-owned vehicle, which local news reports said was a white entry-level model worth Php 4.5 million ($102,000).<br><br>Aquino\u2019s spokesman, Edwin Lacierda, defended his boss, saying the car\u2019s value had depreciated substantially compared with a brand-new Porsche.<br><br>Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares, however, admitted that Aquino, as an individual, can buy whatever he wants as long as he is not using public funds. \u201cIt\u2019s his money, it\u2019s his right. Wala akong karapatang sabihin sa kanya kung anong bibilhin niya, kung anong hindi niya bibilhin as long as it\u2019s not public funds. It\u2019s his money, it\u2019s his right. So, I guess he can decide where he should spend his own money,\u201d said Colmenares. \u03a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on the November 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel The 50-year-old bachelor said he sold his old BMW and took out a personal loan to buy the Porsche, which he said allowed him a relaxing drive amid his gargantuan responsibilities. \u201cI was happy with the deal because its mileage was less than 10,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":6030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029"}],"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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}