{"id":112987,"date":"2023-10-21T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=112987"},"modified":"2023-10-21T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:45:05","slug":"i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=112987","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I don&#8217;t believe politics solves problems&#8217;: Tan Kin Lian shares why he won&#8217;t run in General Election, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[PUBLISHED ONAugust 26, 2023 10:17 AMBy](\/byline\/ching-shi-jie) [Ching Shi Jie](\/byline\/ching-shi-jie) Throughout Tan Kin Lian&#8217;s presidential campaign, he has said that he would use the president&#8217;s &#8220;soft powers&#8221; to influence policies \u2014 such as cost of living, housing and jobs \u2014 if he were elected. Even though several analysts have pointed out that his aim is unrealistic<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-general-election-presidential\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[PUBLISHED ONAugust 26, 2023 10:17 AMBy](\/byline\/ching-shi-jie) [Ching Shi Jie](\/byline\/ching-shi-jie) Throughout Tan Kin Lian&#8217;s presidential campaign,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news.jpg",600,316,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/112987-i-dont-believe-politics-solves-problems-tan-kin-lian-shares-why-he-wont-run-in-general-election-singapore-news-590x316.jpg",590,316,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}