{"id":55959,"date":"2015-11-03T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55959"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:45:14","slug":"who-knew-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55959","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some European countries\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/426410\/europes-welfare-states-attract-refugees-migrants-looming-crisis\"><em>aren&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>having epochal refugee crises<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other countries without an extensive welfare state don\u2019t seem to have Sweden\u2019s problem. Reuters reported that Lithuania \u201cis throwing its doors open to refugees fleeing war and hardship in the Middle East, but is finding few takers.\u201d Rimantas Vaitkus, deputy chancellor of the Lithuanian government, told the news agency: \u201cWe are prepared to accept refugees immediately, but there are no refugees in Italy or Greece who agreed to resettle in Lithuania.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/10\/26\/uk-europe-migrants-lithuania-idUSKCN0SK2DT20151026\">refugees know about Sweden, Germany, France, the United Kingdom<\/a>, which either have generous social security or have been actively attracting immigrants.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>There simply must be some mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some European countries\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0having epochal refugee crises: Other countries without an extensive welfare state don\u2019t seem to have Sweden\u2019s problem. Reuters reported that Lithuania \u201cis throwing its doors open to refugees fleeing war and hardship in the Middle East, but is finding few takers.\u201d Rimantas Vaitkus, deputy chancellor of the Lithuanian government, told the news agency: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55960,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55959\/revisions\/55960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}