{"id":191693,"date":"2009-07-05T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/05\/we-want-your-immortal-soul\/"},"modified":"2009-07-05T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:07:00","slug":"we-want-your-immortal-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/05\/we-want-your-immortal-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"We Want Your Immortal Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/31722810\">Latvian banker who is demanding borrowers souls as collateral<\/a>, Viktor Mirosiichenko of the Kontora loan company:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Clients have to sign a contract, with the words &#8220;Agreement&#8221; in bold letters at the top. The client agrees to the collateral, &#8220;that is, my immortal soul&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mirosiichenko said his company would not employ debt collectors to get its money back if people refused to repay, and promised no physical violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope that this is not the face of market reform in other parts of the former Warsaw Pact nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, there is a Latvian banker who is demanding borrowers souls as collateral, Viktor Mirosiichenko of the Kontora loan company: Clients have to sign a contract, with the words &#8220;Agreement&#8221; in bold letters at the top. The client agrees to the collateral, &#8220;that is, my immortal soul&#8221;. Mirosiichenko said his company would not employ debt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,970,1004,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-corruption","category-finance","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}