{"id":2005,"date":"2015-01-26T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2015-01-26T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:23:33","slug":"the-test-that-is-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2015\/01\/26\/the-test-that-is-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"The Test That is Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece got a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/greeces-syriza-seeks-coalition-partners-poll-win-28479209\">new Prime Minister today<\/a>,\u00a0Alexis Tsipras. The youngest in over 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about the politics of Greece or the Med region&#8230; or most of Europe for that matter. I know that Greece is in trouble for a failing economy and this new PM will be trying to get some debt forgiveness. It may work, it may not.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/sep\/18\/pope-francis-alexis-tsipras-vatican\">PM is a self-described atheist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He eschewed the traditional Greek Orthodox swearing in and used a secular oath, the first ever.<\/p>\n<p>I think that, if he fails, then the media will be sure to highlight his atheism. If he helps the country and is a good leader, his lack of religion won&#8217;t be mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that his ideas work, the Greeks need some help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece got a new Prime Minister today,\u00a0Alexis Tsipras. The youngest in over 150 years. I don&#8217;t know much about the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,18],"tags":[839,944,838],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-government","tag-alexis-tsipras","tag-atheism","tag-greece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}