{"id":349,"date":"2006-02-27T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T02:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-02-27T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T04:03:03","slug":"charities-who-ya-gonna-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/charities-who-ya-gonna-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Charities: Who Ya Gonna Call?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/salarmy.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>When disaster strikes, our support goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvationarmyusa.org\/usn\/www_usn.nsf\">Salvation Army<\/a>. Actually, we support them even when there&#8217;s not an emergency. Local citadels do a lot of good in our communities for adult rehabilitation and other community services. <\/p>\n<p>After September 11, 2001, and in the wake of the terrible 2005 Hurricanes, the American Red Cross seems to have missed their charter, and entertain &#8220;perks&#8221; and other nonsense. We&#8217;re turned off from them for the time being. <\/p>\n<p>This is a part of an article that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/\">Captain Ed<\/a> posted today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/006418.php\">Red Cross Donations Go To Celebrity Parties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people donate to the Red Cross, as I have in the past, they expect their money to go to disaster relief or to supporting blood drives, not to get their executives high-paying speaking gigs or to allow them to rub elbows with Hollywood celebrities. This amounts to an abuse and deception on the part of the Red Cross, gaining donations &#8212; especially in the wake of 9\/11 and recently with Hurricane Katrina &#8212; by using the pain and suffering of victims in order to support a glamorous work environment. As Harvard lecturer Peter Dobkin Hall notes, the Red Cross doesn&#8217;t need to spend money to raise awareness of the organization, as people &#8220;throw money&#8221; at them whenever disaster strikes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When disaster strikes, our support goes to the Salvation Army. Actually, we support them even when there&#8217;s not an emergency. Local citadels do a lot of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}