{"id":98881046,"date":"2011-06-28T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/greek-anti-austerity-protests-turn-violent-disrupt-travel\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:48:18","slug":"greek-anti-austerity-protests-turn-violent-disrupt-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/greek-anti-austerity-protests-turn-violent-disrupt-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Anti-Austerity Protests Turn Violent, Disrupt Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is in the midst of a 48-hour general strike as protesters once again take to the streets to rail against the government\u2019s planned austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest round of strikes and protests is disrupting travel throughout the nation as air traffic controllers, train conductors, and ferry operators have walked off the job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The only public transportation available in Athens is the Metro which is remaining in operation to shuttle Athenians to and from protest sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In some instances the protests have turned violent, with protesters clashing with riot police. Recent polls suggest that 70% to 80% of the Greek populace oppose the austerity measures which would cut public services and increase taxes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-13935400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nFlickr:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/endiaferon\/3118593943\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">endiaferon <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is in the midst of a 48-hour general strike as protesters once again take to the streets to rail against the government\u2019s planned austerity measures. &nbsp; The latest round of strikes and protests is disrupting travel throughout the nation as air traffic controllers, train conductors, and ferry operators have walked off the job. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897330,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881046\/revisions\/98897330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}