{"id":5916,"date":"2012-01-17T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2012-12-11T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:03:24","slug":"concealed-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"Concealed charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavozdegalicia.es\/vigo\/2011\/12\/18\/0003_201112V18C8991.htm\">This moved me<\/a>. It is a make believe restaurant in Vigo in which unemployed parents in Spain take their children to \u201ceat out\u201d. They take turns as volunteers. It is really a charity that makes children believe that their parents can afford to take them out to a restaurant. I felt so bad for those parents.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t live in Spain and you come here and go around you would be surprised. Spain is actually a wealthy country in global terms and it doesn\u2019t look poor when you travel around here. But since the construction industry collapsed unemployment grew from 8% to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.es\/publicdata\/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&amp;met_y=unemployment_rate&amp;idim=country:es&amp;fdim_y=seasonality:sa&amp;dl=es&amp;hl=es&amp;q=tasa+de+desempleo+espa%C3%B1a\">21%<\/a>. Basically all of those who worked in that industry are having a very hard time finding a new role in the economy for themselves. The collapse of real estate had a tremendously negative multiplier effect. It is a huge part of the population that is in such bad shape and it will probably take a decade for unemployment to go down to where it was in 2008. In the meantime initiatives like this help alleviate the pain of those who have fallen into poverty.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5916\" 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>This moved me. It is a make believe restaurant in Vigo in which unemployed parents in Spain take their children to \u201ceat out\u201d. They take turns as volunteers. It is really a charity that makes children believe that their parents can afford to take them out to a restaurant. I felt so bad for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[575,82],"tags":[311,732],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916"}],"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=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}