{"id":5672,"date":"2013-12-18T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T07:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2013-12-18T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T07:31:25","slug":"uruguays-president-jose-mujica-no-palace-no-motorcade-no-frills-world-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/uruguays-president-jose-mujica-no-palace-no-motorcade-no-frills-world-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay&#039;s president Jos\u00e9 Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills &#124; World news &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is Jos\u00e9 Mujica, Uruguay&#8217;s president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his\u00a0salary to social projects, flies economy class and drives an old Volkswagen Beetle.<br \/>\nBut the former guerrilla fighter is clearly disgruntled by those who tag him &#8220;the world&#8217;s poorest president&#8221; and \u2013 much as he would like others to adopt a more sober lifestyle \u2013 the 78-year-old has been in politics long enough to recognise the folly of claiming to be a model for anyone.<br \/>\n&#8220;If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me,&#8221; Mujica said during an interview in his small but cosy one-bedroom home set amid chrysanthemum fields outside Montevideo.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/13\/uruguay-president-jose-mujica?CMP=fb_gu\">Uruguay&#8217;s president Jos\u00e9 Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills | World news | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is Jos\u00e9 Mujica, Uruguay&#8217;s president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his\u00a0salary to social projects, flies economy class and drives an old Volkswagen Beetle. But the former guerrilla fighter is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/uruguays-president-jose-mujica-no-palace-no-motorcade-no-frills-world-news-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uruguay&#039;s president Jos\u00e9 Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills &#124; World news &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}