{"id":2,"date":"2015-01-16T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T08:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-03-14T05:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T05:28:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"start here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;May the good we achieve, as one nation, be shared with the world.&#8221; \u2013 Who Are You My Country, by Lee Tzu Pheng<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bluestar.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi, my name is Visakan, my friends call me Visa. I&#8217;m most active on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\">@visakanv<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I care deeply about Singapore. I was born here in 1990. My family lives here, I served NS here, I met my wife here, I bought a HDB flat here. I consider myself a proud, patriotic Singaporean. I would like to see Singapore continue to flourish as a nation in my lifetime, and hopefully for many more lifetimes after mine.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Singapore has the potential to be one of the greatest cities on Earth \u2013 not just economically, but culturally. I believe it&#8217;s possible for us to herald a true Golden Age, and it&#8217;s possible in our lifetimes.I want to help to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular post on this site is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/examples-of-racism\/\">Examples of Racism in Singapore<\/a> post. But that&#8217;s not all this site is about. I try to take a historical perspective on things if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a list of recurring discussions about Singapore&#8217;s education system, and the problem with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/the-great-paper-chase\/\">The Great Paper Chase<\/a>, dating all the way back to 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/electoral-reform\/\">a request for Parliament to be updated from first principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;May the good we achieve, as one nation, be shared with the world.&#8221; \u2013 Who Are You My Country, by Lee Tzu Pheng Hi, my name is Visakan, my friends call me Visa. I&#8217;m most active on Twitter at @visakanv. I care deeply about Singapore. I was born here in 1990. My family lives here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6cErj-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}