{"id":38796675,"date":"2004-12-30T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/12\/end-the-year-by.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T03:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:19:14","slug":"200412end-the-year-by-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/200412end-the-year-by-html\/","title":{"rendered":"End the Year by Helping People in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, as the last hours of 2003 ticked away, I was moved to make a financial contribution to a political candidate.  It seemed very important at the time, and it was.  <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s1.amazon.com\/exec\/varzea\/tipbox\/A1J1JDQWBS9GWQ\/T3MYIILZNTKFV2\" \/><\/div>\n<map name=\"T3MYIILZNTKFV2\">\n<area href=\"http:\/\/s1.amazon.com\/exec\/varzea\/pay\/T3MYIILZNTKFV2\" target=\"_top\" alt=\"Click Here to Pay\" coords=\"40,100,160,160\" \/>\n<area href=\"http:\/\/s1.amazon.com\/exec\/varzea\/subst\/fx\/help\/how-we-know.html\" target=\"_top\" alt=\"Learn More\" coords=\"23,183,178,195\" \/><\/map>\n<p>But it just can&#8217;t compare to the sort of need you can help with right now.  This year has ended with a horrifying tragedy too large to fully comprehend.  The current reporting is that 80,000 people have lost their lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake\">the recent Tsunamis that have struck in the Indian Ocean<\/a>.  The likelihood is that the total number of casualities will continue to rise dramatically, and many thousands who survived the Tsunamis are now at risk of from disease and hunger.<\/p>\n<p \/>Please consider ending the year by helping your fellow man, and be thankful that it wasn&#8217;t you who lost everything.  Use these links to either make a contribution using your existing account information at Amazon.com, or directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/donate\/donation-form.asp\">American Red Cross International Response Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, as the last hours of 2003 ticked away, I was moved to make a financial contribution to a political candidate. It seemed very important at the time, and it was. But it just can&#8217;t compare to the sort of need you can help with right now. T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMMP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38796675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354615,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796675\/revisions\/173354615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38796675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38796675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38796675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}