{"id":21353,"date":"2010-08-19T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tensions_rise_in_greece_as_austerity_measures_backfire\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:20:22","slug":"tensions_rise_in_greece_as_austerity_measures_backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21353","title":{"rendered":"Der Spiegel: Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece&#8217;s problems are dragging down the country&#8217;s economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike back.<\/p>\n<p>The feast of the Assumption of Mary on Aug. 15 is the high point of summer in the Greek Orthodox world. Here in one of the country&#8217;s many churches, believers pray to the Virgin for mercy, with many of them falling to their knees.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper Ta Nea has recommended that the Greek government adopt the very same approach &#8212; the country&#8217;s leaders have to hope that Mary comes up with a miracle to save Greece from a serious crisis, the paper writes. Without divine intervention, the newspaper suggested, it will be a difficult autumn for the Mediterranean state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,712511,00.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece&#8217;s problems are dragging down the country&#8217;s economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21353\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,460,595,149,591,200,590,454,597,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-greece","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}