{"id":15592,"date":"2011-05-26T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15592"},"modified":"2011-05-26T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:50:53","slug":"borja-bergareche-the-pain-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15592","title":{"rendered":"Borja Bergareche: The Pain in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 23, 2011<br \/>\nBy Borja Bergareche<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MADRID\u2014Antonio de la Calle, a 46-year-old priest who runs the church of the Patrocinio del Se\u00f1or in the Vallecas neighborhood, has been playing God to avoid his neighbors\u2019 descent into hell. In this working-class neighborhood of more than 300,000 people, the most extreme consequences of the economic crisis roiling Spain are transforming day-to-day life. The door of the church is never locked.<\/p>\n<p>Last Easter, a man came in, heated and nervous. \u201cAntonio, I can\u2019t stand it any more. You have to help me. For two months I have heard my kid complaining that he is hungry. I\u2019ve been unemployed for a year and a half. I\u2019m no longer entitled to unemployment payments and my wife isn\u2019t eligible for the emergency subsidy. Either you help me or I will start selling drugs at the corner. I cannot take it any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpolicy.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/pain-spain\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;The Pain in Spain&#8221; by Borja Bergareche<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/obama-arrives-in-france-for-g-8-meets-medvedev\/2011\/05\/26\/AGas0wBH_story.html\">Obama, other world leaders, open G-8 summit in France<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23, 2011 By Borja Bergareche MADRID\u2014Antonio de la Calle, a 46-year-old priest who runs the church of the Patrocinio del Se\u00f1or in the Vallecas neighborhood, has been playing God to avoid his neighbors\u2019 descent into hell. In this working-class &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-43u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15594,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions\/15594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}