{"id":489,"date":"2015-10-03T02:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-10-03T02:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:05:48","slug":"volkswagen-gets-caught-serving-the-almighty-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/03\/volkswagen-gets-caught-serving-the-almighty-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Gets Caught Serving the Almighty Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body>What happens when your God is Mammon instead of the Lord of Truth:<\/p>\n<p><em>FRANKFURT \u2014 A scandal that has battered Volkswagen\u2019s image in the United States spread to the automaker\u2019s core market in Europe on Tuesday, when the company said that 11 million of its diesel cars were equipped with software that could be used to cheat on emissions tests. That was more than 20 times the number of cars previously disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read it all at <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/23\/business\/international\/volkswagen-diesel-car-scandal.html?referer=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/09\/22\/business\/international\/vw-volkswagen-emissions-explainer.html\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when your God is Mammon instead of the Lord of Truth: FRANKFURT \u2014 A scandal that has battered Volkswagen\u2019s image in the United States spread to the automaker\u2019s core market in Europe on Tuesday, when the company said that 11 million of its diesel cars were equipped with software that could be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[262,261],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-of-the-fall","tag-emissions-scandal","tag-volkswagen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}