{"id":6940,"date":"2015-07-13T21:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2015-07-13T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:56:53","slug":"what-just-happened-in-greece-while-we-werent-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6940","title":{"rendered":"What just happened in Greece while we weren&#8217;t looking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, after a miserable half decade during which Greece lost one quarter of its economy, fed-up Greeks elected a far-left government that promised no more austerity, no more giving in to heartless European demands.<\/p>\n<p>To bolster its legitimacy, the government held a nationwide referendum, in which Greeks voted in large numbers against accepting a (by then defunct) austerity package that was a precondition for more European bailouts and assistance.<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230; the Greek government agreed to an even worse austerity package than the one Greek voters just rejected?<\/p>\n<p>What exactly happened here while I blinked?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/220036\/greek-debt-crisis-its-50bn-fund-government-assets-its-bridge-fnancing-todays-greek-deal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6941\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/greekdeal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/greekdeal.jpg 563w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/greekdeal-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6940' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, after a miserable half decade during which Greece lost one quarter of its economy, fed-up Greeks elected a far-left government that promised no more austerity, no more giving in to heartless European demands. To bolster its legitimacy, the government held a nationwide referendum, in which Greeks voted in large numbers against <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6940' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}