{"id":4186,"date":"2009-02-10T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2009-02-10T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:53:22","slug":"helping-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"Helping Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians have always been there to help others.<\/p>\n<p>In recent memory?\u00a0 Australia led the world in helping with the crises in East Timor and after the Indonesian tsunami.\u00a0 And they were and are first, longest-lasting. and among the best in their help in the war on terror. Australians even <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_hb5554\/is_200509\/ai_n21856263\">sent money to the US after Katrina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the bushfires in Victoria are a grievous disaster in such a relatively small nation.\u00a0 I asked &#8220;how can Americans help&#8221;, and got an answer; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org.au\/Donations\/onlineDonations.asp\">Red Cross is seeking donations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re one of my small, elite group of readers from Oz, an Australian blogger has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wonderwebby.com\/2009\/02\/09\/scorched-saturday\/\">collected some links <\/a>for how Australians not affected by the blazes can help out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians have always been there to help others. In recent memory?\u00a0 Australia led the world in helping with the crises in East Timor and after the Indonesian tsunami.\u00a0 And they were and are first, longest-lasting. and among the best in their help in the war on terror. Australians even sent money to the US after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}