{"id":180165,"date":"2012-11-18T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/11\/18\/meet-the-poorest-president-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2012-11-18T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:52:21","slug":"meet-the-poorest-president-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/11\/18\/meet-the-poorest-president-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the \u2018poorest president in the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/YNNEHEBINSQNXWECFKKZ.jpg>Uruguayan president Jose Mujica has been dubbed as the \u2018poorest president\u2019 in the world, as he lives on a ramshackle farm and is known for giving away 90 percent of his earnings to charity.<\/p>\n<p>The charismatic 77-year-old has refused to adapt his lifestyle to embrace the trappings of power that come with being the country\u2019s figurehead, and instead continues to live at the farm situated a few miles away from the country\u2019s capital city of Montevideo.<\/p>\n<p>The only sign the country\u2019s leader is at home are the pair of police officers who stand guard at the end of his heavily tractor-rutted dirt track, the Daily Mail reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, Mujica gives 90 per cent of his monthly salary, the equivalent of 7,500 pounds, away to charity leaving him with just 485 pounds a month to live off. <\/p>\n<p>The part-time farmer\u2019s proudest and most valuable possessions are his tired-looking Volkswagen Beetle and his three-legged dog Manuela, the paper said. <\/p>\n<p>He gets water from a well surrounded by overgrown weeds and his laundry goes to a washing line outside instead of a tumble dryer.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s austere lifestyle is a world away from that of many politicians in the UK who have been caught out trying to unethically and in some cases illegally boost their incomes by fiddling their expenses, the paper added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguayan president Jose Mujica has been dubbed as the \u2018poorest president\u2019 in the world, as he lives on a ramshackle farm and is known for giving away 90 percent of his earnings to charity. The charismatic 77-year-old has refused to adapt his lifestyle to embrace the trappings of power that come with being the country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}