{"id":18,"date":"2005-01-31T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-01-31T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T01:13:00","slug":"social-democracies-with-human-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/social-democracies-with-human-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Democracy with a human face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portal.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/01\/30\/wgerm30.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2005\/01\/30\/ixworld.html\">this story<\/a> is something to keep in mind the next time someone tells you about the advantages of the European-style social democracies&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing &#8220;sexual services&#8221; at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Kudus to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pejmanesque.com\/\">Pejman<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: apparently this story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/media\/notnews\/brothel.asp\">fake but accurate<\/a>. (1 Mar 2005)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this story is something to keep in mind the next time someone tells you about the advantages of the European-style social democracies&#8230; A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing &#8220;sexual services&#8221; at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year. (Kudus to Pejman.) UPDATE: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}