{"id":16314,"date":"2012-05-31T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:41:45","slug":"the-hardworking-greeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/31\/the-hardworking-greeks\/","title":{"rendered":"The hardworking Greeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now this is actually funny. \u00a0According to a recent poll<\/a> in a number of European countries, asking which countries in EU are most and least hard working, and most and least corrupt, Greeks came out thinking that they are the most hard-working country in the whole of EU.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, right.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Now this is actually funny. \u00a0According to a recent poll in a number of European countries, asking which countries in EU are most and least hard working, and most and least corrupt, Greeks came out thinking that they are the most hard-working country in the whole of EU. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1593,116,2397,1041],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-greece","tag-statistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16682,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/06\/do-you-remember-how-the-greeks-always-say-that-eve\/","url_meta":{"origin":16314,"position":0},"title":"Do you remember how the Greeks always say that eve…","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 6, 2012","format":"status","excerpt":"Do you remember how the Greeks always say that everything originated from Greece? \u00a0Well, the other day we figured out how the name Sam came from Greece. \u00a0No, it wasn't Samuel of any kind. \u00a0It was Aleksamdros!","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7639,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/04\/greeks-won-the-euro-2004-finals\/","url_meta":{"origin":16314,"position":1},"title":"Greeks won the Euro 2004 finals!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Just few minutes ago the final match of Euro 2004 has finished. 1:0. 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Before the British, Cyprus has been ruled or dominated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15692,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/07\/day-in-brief-2011-10-07\/","url_meta":{"origin":16314,"position":3},"title":"Day in brief – 2011-10-07","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I have realized a horrible truth. Most of my life I've been misspelling Guinness as Guiness. 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