{"id":2062,"date":"2012-03-25T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2012-03-25T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T19:40:28","slug":"happy-greek-un-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"Happy Greek (un) Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, my background is Greek.  I was born here in Canada to immigrants from Greece who worked hard, made an honest living and taught me great values that they brought with them from the homeland back in the mid 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Well today, March 25th, is the day Greeks celebrate breaking free from the Ottoman empire.  It is more affectionately known as Greek Independence day.<\/p>\n<p>So I would like to congratulate Greece on being independent and for standing up on it&#8217;s own two feet and for working hard to become a proud, stable, secure&#8230;&#8230;oh wait&#8230;.I forgot about the  \u20ac110 billion bailout from the EU and the failing economy and the huge public sector with the overtaxed private sector and the giant bloated retirement packages&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nevermind.  You&#8217;re not independent anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, my background is Greek. I was born here in Canada to immigrants from Greece who worked hard, made an honest living and taught me great values that they brought with them from the homeland back in the mid 1960&#8217;s. Well today, March 25th, is the day Greeks celebrate breaking free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-politics-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}