{"id":61,"date":"2011-01-02T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-01-02T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T02:19:07","slug":"witchcraft-declared-legal-profession-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/witchcraft-declared-legal-profession-in-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Witchcraft declared legal profession in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROMANIA has changed its labour laws to officially recognise witchcraft as a profession, prompting one self-described witch to threaten retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which went into effect on Saturday, is part of the government&#8217;s drive to crack down on widespread tax evasion in a country that is in recession.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to witches, astrologists, embalmers, valets and driving instructors are now considered by labour law to be working real jobs, making it harder for them to avoid income tax.<\/p>\n<p>For months the measure had been debated, protested by witches and mocked by the media.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a witch called Bratara told Realitate.net, the website of a top TV station, that she plans to cast a spell using black pepper and yeast to create discord in the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROMANIA has changed its labour laws to officially recognise witchcraft as a profession, prompting one self-described witch to threaten retaliation. The move, which went into effect on Saturday, is part of the government&#8217;s drive to crack down on widespread tax evasion in a country that is in recession. In addition to witches, astrologists, embalmers, valets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}