{"id":8678,"date":"2018-02-05T13:16:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2018-10-18T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T04:31:27","slug":"osm-marivir-montebon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/osm-marivir-montebon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OSM! &#8211; Positive Journalism: Lobby for Immigration Reform, the Filipino Ambassador to the United States Tells Filipinos in Living Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Marivir R. Montebon, Editor of OSM!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8679\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8679\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8679\" src=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/received_10212623325751561-1-e1517803012442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/received_10212623325751561-1-e1517803012442.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/received_10212623325751561-1-e1517803012442-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/received_10212623325751561-1-e1517803012442-260x204.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/received_10212623325751561-1-e1517803012442-160x126.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez. Picture courtesy OSM!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said Saturday that Filipinos living in America should actively lobby with Congress and local officials on immigration reforms to ensure protection and intact families. This came as a response to the latest pronouncement of President Trump in his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sotu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the Union<\/a> address to cut chain migration and limiting family petitions to spouses and children.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/justcliqit.com\/romualdez-immigration-drug-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for full article. <\/a><br \/>\n<em>OSM! and <strong>the WORD<\/strong> collaborate on various journalism, writing and multimedia journalism projects.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a need to lobby before Congress and your elected officials,&#8221; the ambassador said. &#8220;The Filipinos here is a potent group. We have to be prepared for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/osm-marivir-montebon-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[500],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","tag-osm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8691,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/8691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}