{"id":21179,"date":"2015-07-06T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2015-07-06T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:16:09","slug":"thomas-piketty-explains-why-the-germans-are-being-massive-hypocrites-about-greeces-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/06\/thomas-piketty-explains-why-the-germans-are-being-massive-hypocrites-about-greeces-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Piketty Explains Why the Germans Are Being Massive Hypocrites About Greece\u2019s Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slate<\/em> has an article quoting from a translation of a German magazine article.  Thomas Piketty Explains Why the Germans Are Being Massive Hypocrites About Greece\u2019s Debt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Piketty:<\/strong> When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral stance about debt and strongly believe that debts must be repaid, then I think: what a huge joke! Germany is the country that has never repaid its debts. It has no standing to lecture other nations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If they can publish this in Germany, why can&#8217;t our lame stream media pick this up and give it the same amount of play they are giving to their false stories about this?  What a silly question.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Margaret Darling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mard101\/posts\/10206674352559242?comment_id=10206675452866749&#038;offset=0&#038;total_comments=5&#038;comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R%22}\" target=\"_blank\">posting this on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has an article quoting from a translation of a German magazine article. Thomas Piketty Explains Why the Germans Are Being Massive Hypocrites About Greece\u2019s Debt. Piketty: When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral stance about debt and strongly believe that debts must be repaid, then I think: what a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}