{"id":33646,"date":"2012-07-20T01:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_the_eurozones_religious_faultline\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T01:29:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:29:33","slug":"bbc_the_eurozones_religious_faultline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33646","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) The eurozone&#39;s religious faultline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion among eurozone leaders about the future of their single currency has become an increasingly divisive affair. On the surface, religion has nothing to do with it &#8211; but could Protestant and Catholic leaders have deep-seated instincts that lead them to pull the eurozone in different directions, until it breaks?<\/p>\n<p>Following the last European summit in Brussels there was much talk of defeat for Chancellor Merkel by what was described as a &#8220;new Latin Alliance&#8221; of Italy and Spain backed by France.<\/p>\n<p>Many Germans protested that too much had been conceded by their government &#8211; and it might not be too far-fetched to see this as just the latest Protestant criticism of the Latin approach to matters monetary, which has deep roots in German culture, shaped by religious belief.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-18789154\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion among eurozone leaders about the future of their single currency has become an increasingly divisive affair. On the surface, religion has nothing to do with it &#8211; but could Protestant and Catholic leaders have deep-seated instincts that lead them<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33646\">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":[39,40,50,42,460,149,200,478,133,363,154,593,151,108,364,585,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-economy","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646","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=33646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}