{"id":65993,"date":"2023-08-22T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=65993"},"modified":"2023-08-22T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:30:00","slug":"ng-kok-song-the-boy-from-a-fishing-village-who-wants-to-be-a-politically-independent-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=65993","title":{"rendered":"Ng Kok Song: The boy from a fishing village who wants to be a &#8216;politically independent&#8217; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He had once contemplated becoming a clerk, but is now vying for the role of Singapore&#8217;s next President. CNA speaks to former GIC chief investment officer Ng Kok Song on how it was his \u201cmum\u2019s tears\u201d that motivated him to succeed in life and why his bid for presidency has nothing to do with power or glory.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/ng-kok-song-president-election-3712651\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had once contemplated becoming a clerk, but is now vying for the role of Singapore&#8217;s next President. CNA speaks to former GIC chief investment officer Ng Kok Song on how it was his \u201cmum\u2019s tears\u201d that motivated him to succeed in life and why his bid for presidency has nothing to do with power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65994,"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-65993","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\/65993","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=65993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}