{"id":20789,"date":"2020-02-06T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p082gwn8"},"modified":"2020-02-06T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:45:00","slug":"panic-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/02\/06\/panic-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"Schools in Roma districts of Bulgaria emptied in minutes in a mass panic recently. Parents dragged their children out of class, fearing that if they stayed, they would be abducted by social workers, and possibly sent for adoption abroad. Meanwhile many other parents are protesting against a draft law they say puts 70% of children at similar risk. Are they right to be scared? Or have rumours and fake news spread hysteria about the power of the state? Suddenly, campaigns to defend the \u201ctraditional family\u201d are gathering strength in Bulgaria \u2013 and across eastern Europe. What\u2019s behind them? And why do they treat one Western country \u2013 Norway \u2013 as the ultimate source of evil? Tim Whewell investigates. \n\n(Image: Protestors in Sofia, Bulgaria, demand the return of Katerina, a Bulgarian baby taken into care by social services in Germany. Credit: BBC\/Tim Whewell)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p082gwn8\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools in Roma districts of Bulgaria emptied in minutes in a mass panic recently. Parents dragged their children out of class, fearing that if they stayed, they would be abducted by social workers, and possibly sent for adoption abroad. Meanwhile many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598654,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions\/1598654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}