{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-01T21:01:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2005\/01\/01\/making_a_difference\/"},"modified":"2005-01-01T21:01:50","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T21:01:50","slug":"making_a_difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2005\/01\/01\/making_a_difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen the news.  You can&#8217;t help but be shocked by what&#8217;s currently going on in South Asia.<br \/>\nIt seems that last night the generosity of the general public in the UK outstripped that of our government.  Over \u00a350mln has been donated so far.  I guess that only makes a small dent in the problems of reconstruction and healthcare though, so please make a pledge today.  There are many places to do so, and the one I&#8217;ve used in the UK is Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).  If you&#8217;re a UK taxpayer your gift can be made tax efficient, and the member agencies include organisations such as Tearfund and World Vision.<br \/>\nYou can click on the graphic below to be taken to the website.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.org.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DEC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/decLogoWhiteSmall.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPray for the survivors as they try to reconstruct their lives.  They need our prayers as much as our money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen the news. You can&#8217;t help but be shocked by what&#8217;s currently going on in South Asia. It seems that last night the generosity of the general public in the UK outstripped that of our government. Over \u00a350mln has been donated so far. I guess that only makes a small dent in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2005\/01\/01\/making_a_difference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making a difference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}