{"id":1295,"date":"2015-10-08T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2018-10-29T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:33:58","slug":"giant-among-dwarfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/giant-among-dwarfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant among dwarfs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GIANT AMONG DWARFS. That&#8217;s what I imagined Joker to be when he joined the Corazon Aquino government, a solid pillar supporting Cory&#8217;s load only to be felled as a sacrificial offering when the coup attempts started to besiege her rule.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IRAIA-logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"IRAIA thoughts\" src=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IRAIA-logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"IRAIA thoughts\" width=\"160\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IRAIA thoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Giant among dwarfs he was again, when he joined the Lower House, and later the Senate. He marched to a different drummer, and I&#8217;d like to believe, that drummer was the democratic mass movement&#8211;although sometimes he seemed hard of hearing or too stubborn, and so made some missteps. But aside from that, he was a likable guy, a courageous human rights lawyer, fellow street parliamentarian, and fiscalizer in government.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I didn&#8217;t like about him was his hairdo. I think he secretly fancied himself to be either Emperor Trajan or Constantine. But that&#8217;s ok. After all, he was a giant among dwarfs.#<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/junverzola\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Follow @junverzola<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOKER WAS A LIKEABLE GUY, a courageous human rights lawyer, fellow street parliamentarian, and fiscalizer in government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,5],"tags":[80,288,289,290,291],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-joker-arroyo","tag-lawyer","tag-modern-hero","tag-obit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}