{"id":85,"date":"2004-08-11T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-08-11T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T15:53:19","slug":"phillipines-wedding-tripping-groping-cannibalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Philippines&#8230; wedding&#8230; tripping&#8230; groping&#8230; cannibalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently, the old trip-and-grope maneuver, accidental or not, is quite a scanadalous offense in the Philippines.   So much so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/10\/philippines.cannibal.ap\/index.html\">you can be eaten for it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the July 17 wedding of his daughter, Eladio Baule got angry with his cousin Benjie Ganay who tripped and accidentally touched the bride&#8217;s bottom, said Senior Police Inspector Perla Bacuel, at Narra town in Palawan province, southwest of Manila.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, Baule, his son Gerald, another cousin Junnie Buyot and a nephew, Sabtuari Pique, allegedly confronted Ganay, then drove him to a secluded place where they stabbed him to death, Bacuel said.<\/p>\n<p>Buyot, who surrendered to police and is acting as a witness, told police they then roasted Ganay&#8217;s body using coconut leaves and kerosene, Bacuel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They then served the guy up to unwitting guests at the wedding reception.  Yummy.  Though if I had been there, I think I would&#8217;ve known something was up, considering I&#8217;m allergic to coconut and all.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the Philippines,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/11\/arroyo.kiss.ap\/index.html\"> don&#8217;t kiss the President<\/a>.  Or the bodyguards might eat you, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/11\/arroyo.kiss.ap\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/11\/arroyo.kiss.ap\/story.arroyo.afp.jpg\" alt=\"no\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Cannibalism!  And, stop kissing me!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two rules of life: Never grope the bride.  And, never kiss the president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}