{"id":217111,"date":"2010-01-19T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-6337575332294834879"},"modified":"2010-01-19T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:40:00","slug":"relief-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217111","title":{"rendered":"Relief for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S1T6pW_WdJI\/AAAAAAAAE-M\/7JGQjJSnVJk\/s1600-h\/presidents.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S1T6pW_WdJI\/AAAAAAAAE-M\/7JGQjJSnVJk\/s400\/presidents.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428239039341163666\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My lack of Haiti blogging does not denote a lack of interest or concern&#8230; It&#8217;s just so horrific -and like 9\/11 you can&#8217;t seem to escape the images&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Presidents Bush and Clinton have already raised $8 million dollars. I can&#8217;t believe how old Bushy looks. When I walked into the room while this press conference was on, I thought it was his father at first. I don&#8217;t know who would ever want to be President &#8211;it sucks the life blood from you. <\/p>\n<p>Friends of mine are in the middle of adopting a little boy from Haiti. The two year old survived the quake, but only today were the children of his orphanage given a tent. They have had to go through so much red tape to adopt this little one &#8211;and for as long as they&#8217;ve been going through the motions, he should have never even have been there for this. He should have been here&#8230;safe and sound. Why do other countries stall the American adoptions?! I hate that pride comes before the well-being of their orphaned children.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the unspeakable, I NEVER want to hear anyone complain about their job again. Haitians are being paid <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">$1.50 A DAY<\/span> to pull dead, rotting bodies from the rubble&#8211;and it&#8217;s not all relative.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S1T_s3r7UcI\/AAAAAAAAE-U\/IUuOTppDLaI\/s1600-h\/4278342879_9bfd300c64.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S1T_s3r7UcI\/AAAAAAAAE-U\/IUuOTppDLaI\/s400\/4278342879_9bfd300c64.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428244597215809986\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/americanredcross\/sets\/72157623078316465\/\">Look through the Red Cross pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arc3.convio.net\/site\/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&#038;s_src=RSG000000000&#038;s_subsrc=RCO_BigRedButton\">DONATE TO THE AMERICAN RED CROSS<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-6337575332294834879?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lack of Haiti blogging does not denote a lack of interest or concern&#8230; It&#8217;s just so horrific -and like 9\/11 you can&#8217;t seem to escape the images&#8230; Presidents Bush and Clinton have already raised $8 million dollars. I can&#8217;t believe how old Bushy looks. When I walked into the room while this press conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}