{"id":2299,"date":"2025-07-18T05:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2299\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:25:11","slug":"victorians-are-suffering-from-acute-stockholm-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2299\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorians are suffering from acute Stockholm Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorians are suffering an acute case of Stockholm Syndrome regarding the state Labor government.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria\u2019s nine-month lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic was one of the longest and most severe in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It was also brought to us by the state government, whose incompetence with hotel quarantine and harsh enforcement should have scared voters away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victorian-debt-per-capita.webp.webp\" width=\"660\" height=\"566\" alt=\"State debt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorians are suffering an acute case of Stockholm Syndrome regarding the state Labor government. Victoria\u2019s nine-month lockdown during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}