{"id":72981,"date":"2012-04-04T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72981"},"modified":"2012-04-04T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:26:12","slug":"greek-man-shoots-himself-over-austerity-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72981","title":{"rendered":"Greek Man Shoots Himself &#8216;Over Austerity Measures&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/greece\/9185498\/Greek-man-shoots-himself-over-austerity-measures.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The death of the 77-year-old man in the Greek capital&#8217;s Syntagma Square came after similar incidents in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner shot himself with a handgun a few hundred yards from the Greek parliament, in apparent despair over his debts.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly shouted &#8220;so I won&#8217;t leave debts for my children&#8221; before killing himself in the square, which has been the scene of numerous violent protests against the introduction of tough austerity measures in recent months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I make the connection, here. &#8216;Debts&#8217; means that you borrowed money and can&#8217;t pay it back. Does Greece not have bankruptcy laws?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In neighbouring Italy, a 78-year-old woman threw herself from the balcony of her third-floor apartment on Tuesday in apparent protest against the fact that her monthly pension had been cut to 600 euros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess the government is ahead by 600 euros a month. Not what I think of when I think &#8216;protest&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The death of the 77-year-old man in the Greek capital&#8217;s Syntagma Square came after similar incidents in Italy. The pensioner shot himself with a handgun a few hundred yards from the Greek parliament, in apparent despair over his debts. He reportedly shouted &#8220;so I won&#8217;t leave debts for my children&#8221; before killing himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72983,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72981\/revisions\/72983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}