{"id":7490,"date":"2012-12-17T19:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2012-12-17T19:31:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:31:56","slug":"from-bbc-jose-mujica-the-worlds-poorest-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/from-bbc-jose-mujica-the-worlds-poorest-president\/","title":{"rendered":"(from BBC)  &#8216;Jose Mujica: The world&#8217;s &#8216;poorest&#8217; president&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 <\/strong>It&#8217;s a common grumble that politicians&#8217; lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president &#8211; who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay&#8230;Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside.<\/p>\n<p>This is the residence of the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, whose lifestyle clearly differs sharply from that of most other world leaders&#8230;.President Mujica has shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan state provides for its leaders and opted to stay at his wife&#8217;s farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.<\/p>\n<p>The president and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the full story click the image:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20243493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7491\" title=\"_63994996_mujhome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/63994996_mujhome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/63994996_mujhome.jpg 464w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/63994996_mujhome-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20243493<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 It&#8217;s a common grumble that politicians&#8217; lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president &#8211; who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay&#8230;Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}