{"id":9054,"date":"2010-03-05T08:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2010-03-05T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T13:02:13","slug":"the-plan-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9054","title":{"rendered":"The Plan Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the global economic meltdown has caused immense problems, it might have dealt a major jump ahead to my plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/politics\/20100304-25667.html\">to have my own island nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Greek state must sell stakes in companies and also assets such as, for example, unpopulated islands,&#8221; Frank Sch\u00e4ffler, a member of parliament for the pro-business Free Democrats, told the Bild daily.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Wanderwitz, an MP for Merkel&#8217;s own conservative Christian Democrats, said Athens should provide collateral for any money it receives from the European Union to help it out of its debt crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, certain Greek islands also come into question,&#8221; added Wanderwitz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We give you cash, you give us Corfu,&#8221; the Bild commented.<\/p>\n<p>Greece has around 6,000 islands off its coast, of which only 227 are inhabited, according to the country&#8217;s National Tourism Office website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kingdom of Berg, at the corner of the Adriatic and the Med.\u00a0 Of course, we&#8217;d have to import snow, but that&#8217;s a small price to pay for being my own potentate.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to get someone to pay me a ton of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the global economic meltdown has caused immense problems, it might have dealt a major jump ahead to my plan to have my own island nation: The Greek state must sell stakes in companies and also assets such as, for example, unpopulated islands,&#8221; Frank Sch\u00e4ffler, a member of parliament for the pro-business Free Democrats, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}