{"id":170471,"date":"2025-08-22T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=170471"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:15:29","slug":"smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=170471","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and mirrors: cannabis drama swirls around Philippine Senate\u2019s \u2018bad boy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Philippines, politics can often feel like theatre. But few senators embody the blurring of screen and state as fully as Robinhood Ferdinand Carino Padilla, an ex-action star whose time in office has been marked by spectacle, scandal and slapstick.<br \/>\nThe 55-year-old, once nicknamed Philippine cinema\u2019s \u201cbad boy\u201d&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/people\/article\/3322357\/cannabis-scandal-clouds-philippine-senates-bad-boy-robin-padilla-not-fit-be?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Philippines, politics can often feel like theatre. But few senators embody the blurring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170471-smoke-and-mirrors-cannabis-drama-swirls-around-philippine-senates-bad-boy-590x410.jpg",590,410,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\/170471","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=170471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}