{"id":7484,"date":"2011-12-19T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2011-12-19T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T10:06:16","slug":"the-human-cost-of-the-euro-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7484","title":{"rendered":"The human cost of the Euro crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like us, a number of our friends enclose newsletters with their Christmas cards. We enjoy catching up on events in the lives of friends whom we may not have seen for some time &#8211; but some of the news can be sad.<\/p>\n<p>The most tragic news this year has been from an old friend from university days explaining that a young relative in Italy has committed suicide because of the collapse of his business. When I read this terrible news, I wondered how often this story is being repeated around Europe as the economic crisis hits so many people so hard.<\/p>\n<p>In the newspaper this morning, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/18\/greek-woes-suicide-rate-highest\">a piece<\/a> on the economic travails in Greece. Before the crisis, Greece had the lowest suicide rate in Europe; now it has the highest. The rate of suicide in the country has almost doubled.<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, let&#8217;s spare a thought for all those challenged by new economic \u00a0hardships and especially those contemplating the ultimate price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like us, a number of our friends enclose newsletters with their Christmas cards. We enjoy catching up on events in the lives of friends whom we may not have seen for some time &#8211; but some of the news can be sad. The most tragic news this year has been from an old friend from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}