{"id":6480,"date":"2015-07-07T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2015-07-07T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T23:24:23","slug":"as-yanis-varoufakis-revs-off-into-the-sunset-its-his-substance-ill-remember-suzanne-moore-comment-is-free-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/07\/as-yanis-varoufakis-revs-off-into-the-sunset-its-his-substance-ill-remember-suzanne-moore-comment-is-free-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"As Yanis Varoufakis revs off into the sunset, it\u2019s his substance I\u2019ll remember &#124; Suzanne Moore &#124; Comment is free &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He has always insisted that the responsibility for the Greek recovery did not lie with Greece alone, that there had to be realism in the conditions demanded by Greece\u2019s creditors, as the sheer human cost was too much to bear. He showed how financial issues had become politicised, how the old paradigms were broken. Worse, he spoke to Eurocrats as equals.He spoke to the rest of us as human beings, describing what Europe had laid on the shoulders of Greece as \u201cfiscal waterboarding\u201d. He railed at the birthplace of democracy being turned into what he called \u201ca debt colony\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jul\/06\/yanis-varoufakis-motorbike-greece-finance-minister\">As Yanis Varoufakis revs off into the sunset, it\u2019s his substance I\u2019ll remember | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has always insisted that the responsibility for the Greek recovery did not lie with Greece alone, that there had to be realism in the conditions demanded by Greece\u2019s creditors, as the sheer human cost was too much to bear. He showed how financial issues had become politicised, how the old paradigms were broken. Worse, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/07\/as-yanis-varoufakis-revs-off-into-the-sunset-its-his-substance-ill-remember-suzanne-moore-comment-is-free-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As Yanis Varoufakis revs off into the sunset, it\u2019s his substance I\u2019ll remember &#124; Suzanne Moore &#124; Comment is free &#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-6480","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\/6480","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=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}