{"id":12585,"date":"2022-04-11T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2022-04-11T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:58:08","slug":"the-price-of-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/the-price-of-public-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Public Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It apparently costs so much to wage and win electoral campaigns for national and local positions. Tens of billions of pesos will be spent in the run-up to the May 2022 elections &#8212; in the end, who really pays the price of public office that too often just goes to those who spend the most?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-110x110.png 110w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-price-of-public-office-ao-220409-335pm-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It apparently costs so much to wage and win electoral campaigns for national and local positions. Tens of billions of pesos will be spent in the run-up to the May 2022 elections &#8212; in the end, who really pays the price of public office that too often just goes to those who spend the most?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2617,2893,347,2782,2895,2894,2781],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-2022-elections","tag-campaign-spending","tag-duterte-administration","tag-elections-2022","tag-electoral-campaigns","tag-may-2022-elections","tag-philippine-national-elections","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 13:15:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12587,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}