{"id":32159,"date":"2012-04-25T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/german_chancellor_angela_merkel_defends_austerity_in_face_of_open_rebellion\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:02:22","slug":"german_chancellor_angela_merkel_defends_austerity_in_face_of_open_rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32159","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends austerity in face of open rebellion in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare concession, the German Chancellor admitted that austerity alone would not solve the crisis but she insisted that the wave of political opposition to fiscal discipline was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not saying that saving solves all problems,&#8221; Ms Merkel said at a conference in Berlin. &#8220;[But] you can&#8217;t spend more than you take in. You can&#8217;t live your whole life this way. Everybody knows this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financialcrisis\/9224465\/German-Chancellor-Angela-Merkel-defends-austerity-in-face-of-open-rebellion-in-Europe.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare concession, the German Chancellor admitted that austerity alone would not solve the crisis but she insisted that the wave of political opposition to fiscal discipline was wrong. &#8220;We&#8217;re not saying that saving solves all problems,&#8221; Ms Merkel<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32159\">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":[40,50,460,149,591,200,590,144,478,151,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-germany","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32159","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=32159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}