{"id":247,"date":"2014-01-22T06:39:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialworknetwork.wordpress.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-10-07T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:14:32","slug":"tensions-rage-in-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/2014\/01\/22\/tensions-rage-in-eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions Rage in Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tensions Rage in Eastern Europe \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/21\/world\/europe\/ukraine-protests\/index.html\">Tensions Rage in Eastern Europe <\/a><\/p>\n<p>These protests in Ukraine coincided with our Study Abroad group&#8217;s departure from Moldova, and it was hard not to reflect on the parallels between the two countries.\u00a0 The tension between reform and movement to join the European Union with an older generation&#8217;s nostalgia for Soviet times, when there was at least some protection against poverty and a guaranty of\u00a0a basic standard of living, is felt\u00a0within families and across the population.\u00a0 Russia exerts pressure away from reform, and there is cause to\u00a0question the independence of media outlets.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Democracy is a fragile thing&#8221;, said a member of the Liberal Democratic Youth Movement in Moldova.\u00a0 And I am beginning to understand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions Rage in Eastern Europe These protests in Ukraine coincided with our Study Abroad group&#8217;s departure from Moldova, and it was hard not to reflect on the parallels between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/swfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}