{"id":5860,"date":"2011-10-13T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:16:33","slug":"the-sin-of-being-successful-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5860","title":{"rendered":"The sin of being successful in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipinos don\u2019t speak Spanish anymore but they speak English with a   Spanish accent.  Spaniards are not practicing Catholics but they live   life with a Catholic accent. Spaniards are not pious anymore but they   have an obsession with being humble. On Twitter, Tumblr, here,\u00a0 I   frequently get accused of not being humilde enough, not humble enough.    It\u2019s as if I was a sinner of some kind. In Spain you can\u2019t build a   company and say that you are so proud of your work. Say that in Spain   and you will be frowned upon. When people ask me why is it that   unemployment is so high in Spain<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/oct\/04\/spain-unemployement-jobless-4-million\"> at 21% <\/a>I  say:  there aren\u2019t enough  people here who want to build companies and  be proud of their work.   There aren\u2019t enough people who want to do  whatever it takes to be  successful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5860\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipinos don\u2019t speak Spanish anymore but they speak English with a Spanish accent. Spaniards are not practicing Catholics but they live life with a Catholic accent. Spaniards are not pious anymore but they have an obsession with being humble. On Twitter, Tumblr, here,\u00a0 I frequently get accused of not being humilde enough, not humble enough. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}