{"id":522,"date":"2012-01-15T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2012-01-15T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T08:07:00","slug":"in-lieu-of-christmas-presents-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/in-lieu-of-christmas-presents-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"In Lieu of Christmas Presents 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So disheartening about the Greg Mortenson fiasco. Who knows where the lines in the sand are or what led Greg to cross them, but however you look at it, the fact is he lied!<br \/>\nThis year our donations went again to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"One World Health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworldhealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_plugin_object posterous_plugin_object_image\" src=\"http:\/\/getfile9.posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2011-12-25\/lhtfpGAzDhwjFFbIqGzddJFFpjHsfkdlygGdrifBIAafcvamcctcEGekGlft\/oneWorldHealth.jpg.thumb100.jpg?content_part=DlhypspJvluqcEtHputm\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/> <\/a><a title=\"One World Health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworldhealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nOne World Health<\/a> partners with government to manufacture drugs whose patents have expired but which remain affective for curing diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Global Giving\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgiving.org\/girleffect\/learn-more\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_plugin_object posterous_plugin_object_image\" src=\"http:\/\/getfile7.posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2011-12-25\/vahqfgFEBnCmGjufDmDwJwvckHugFhwnyxcllnhwtffciJBHzwjCnIaflGsI\/globalGiving.jpg.thumb100.jpg?content_part=mhFelHExyGjJCDdgjApA\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Global Giving\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgiving.org\/girleffect\/learn-more\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nGlobal Giving<\/a> vets and organizes a wide variety of projects.They will keep me in the loop as the projects develop.<a title=\"AVAAZ\" href=\"http:\/\/avaaz.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nAAVAZ<\/a> is a truly global network. It has over ten million members in 193 countries.<a title=\"Electronic Frontier Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.EFF.org\"><br \/>\nEFF<\/a> is a legal non-profit that works on behalf of internet freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So disheartening about the Greg Mortenson fiasco. Who knows where the lines in the sand are or what led Greg to cross them, but however you look at it, the fact is he lied! This year our donations went again to&#8230; One World Health partners with government to manufacture drugs whose patents have expired but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/15\/in-lieu-of-christmas-presents-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"In Lieu of Christmas Presents 2011\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[340,335,337,341,339,336,338],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-aavaz","tag-charity","tag-donations","tag-eff","tag-global-giving","tag-in-lieu-of-gifts","tag-one-world-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}