{"id":67176,"date":"2023-09-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=67176"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:00:00","slug":"commentary-the-unexpected-power-of-the-pineapple-in-singapores-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=67176","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: The unexpected power of the pineapple in Singapore\u2019s Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers of \u201cOng lai, huat ah\u201d resounded throughout Singapore last week as Tharman Shanmugaratnam clinched the presidency. Strategic communications lecturer Ian YH Tan looks at the unexpected power of the pineapple as a campaign symbol.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/presidential-election-2023-pineapple-campaign-symbols-tharman-ng-kok-song-tan-kin-lian-3744766\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers of \u201cOng lai, huat ah\u201d resounded throughout Singapore last week as Tharman Shanmugaratnam clinched the presidency. Strategic communications lecturer Ian YH Tan looks at the unexpected power of the pineapple as a campaign symbol.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67177,"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-67176","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\/67176","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=67176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}