{"id":13531,"date":"2012-02-13T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13531"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:04:22","slug":"greek-government-expands-categories-of-disabled-to-include-compulsive-gamblers-fetishists-and-sadomasochists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/greek-government-expands-categories-of-disabled-to-include-compulsive-gamblers-fetishists-and-sadomasochists\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek government expands categories of disabled to include &#8220;compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time most people expect the Greek government to be cutting back, the Labor ministry just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/10\/world\/europe\/greek-disability-groups-angered-by-new-categories.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the recognized disabilities<\/a> to include a few categories that will raise eyebrows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Disability groups in Greece expressed anger on Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. <\/p>\n<p>The National Confederation of Disabled People, calling the action \u201cincomprehensible,\u201d said that pedophiles could be eligible for a higher disability pay than some people who had received organ transplants.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Ministry said the categories added to the expanded list &mdash; that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists &mdash; were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time most people expect the Greek government to be cutting back, the Labor ministry just expanded the recognized disabilities to include a few categories that will raise eyebrows: Disability groups in Greece expressed anger on Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[8,62,84,1526,66],"tags":[52,337,746,139,255],"class_list":["post-13531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-europe","category-government","category-greece","category-health-science","tag-absurd","tag-eu","tag-gambling","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3wf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13532,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions\/13532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}