protests <\/a>from different sectors of society. I personally believe that Mang Dolphy deserve to be awarded the National Artist award more that anyone else. He was a big part of my childhood, not just me, but also millions of other Filipino people. He was denied the award when he was still alive. Hopefully, the award will finally be given to him this year. His family will not be the only ones who will celebrate it, but also Filipinos around the globe will.<\/p>\nMang Dolphy, you will greatly be missed. You are not just a National Artist for me, but also a National Treasure.<\/p>\n
\u2018I want people to remember me as a simple person, a good person whom people will talk about nicely \u2014 walang masasabing masama. That\u2019s the best legacy I can leave for my children and grandchildren\u2026 a good name. And also, I want people to remember me with a smile.\u2019 (Aug. 10, 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was still a kid, I grew up watching Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr.’s (fondly called Dolphy). His TV sitcom called “Home Along Da Riles” was also a part of my childhood. I wouldn’t let a week pass without watching the sitcom. His movies’ theme are mostly about a typical Filipino family and his role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,45],"tags":[292,298,296,297,295,293,294,299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}