{"id":65499,"date":"2023-08-15T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=65499"},"modified":"2023-08-15T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:31:00","slug":"approached-to-run-for-president-in-2011-former-minister-george-yeo-offered-himself-as-emergency-spare-tyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=65499","title":{"rendered":"Approached to run for President in 2011, former minister George Yeo offered himself as &#8217;emergency spare tyre&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on his new book, Mr Yeo looks back on his response to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and says he was &#8220;right to make that decision early&#8221;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/george-yeo-interview-emergency-spare-tyre-presidential-election-2011-3700126\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on his new book, Mr Yeo looks back on his response to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and says he was &#8220;right to make that decision early&#8221;.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-65499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}