{"id":36598,"date":"2013-01-04T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_old_greek_blasphemy_laws_stir_up_modern_drama\/"},"modified":"2013-01-04T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:00:37","slug":"npr_old_greek_blasphemy_laws_stir_up_modern_drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36598","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Old Greek Blasphemy Laws Stir Up Modern Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police were not among [Elder] Loizos&#8217; supporters. They said they received thousands of complaints about his &#8220;Elder Pastitsios&#8221; Facebook page&#8230; [that] criticized Elder Paisios as xenophobic and close-minded. [It also mocked the monk&#8217;s name \u201d\u201d Paisios became Pastitsios, like the Greek pasta dish].<\/p>\n<p>Last September, they arrested him and charged him with blasphemy, which carries up to six months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Many Greeks saw his case as a theocratic stifling of free speech. It was the first of two blasphemy arrests in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/01\/04\/168546876\/old-greek-blasphemy-laws-stir-up-modern-drama\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police were not among [Elder] Loizos&#8217; supporters. They said they received thousands of complaints about his &#8220;Elder Pastitsios&#8221; Facebook page&#8230; [that] criticized Elder Paisios as xenophobic and close-minded. [It also mocked the monk&#8217;s name \u201d\u201d Paisios became Pastitsios, like<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36598\">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":[39,40,50,200,454,133,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-greece","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36598","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=36598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}