{"id":2595,"date":"2008-05-12T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/12\/cyclone-relief\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T07:40:14","slug":"cyclone-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/12\/cyclone-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot said and written about Cyclone Nargis recently, and reading the coverage by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/intersection\/2008\/05\/did_nargis_kill_100000.php\">Chris Mooney<\/a> and others makes me feel a little like a Bad Person for not saying anything myself. But, really, what is there to say? It&#8217;s a gigantic disaster, and the deplorable political situation in that part of the world isn&#8217;t helping anything.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to do something halfway constructive, I&#8217;ll pass along a link from my email, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercycorps.org\/myanmarcyclone\/\">Mercy Corps&#8217;s Myanmar Cyclone page<\/a>. They&#8217;re one of the organizations that I sent money to after last summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/atheist_charity_results.php\">atheist charity search<\/a>, and from all reports are an organization with an excellent track record.<\/p>\n<p>If, like me, you can&#8217;t think of anything useful to say about the tragedy, you might think about sending them a few bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot said and written about Cyclone Nargis recently, and reading the coverage by Chris Mooney and others makes me feel a little like a Bad Person for not saying anything myself. But, really, what is there to say? It&#8217;s a gigantic disaster, and the deplorable political situation in that part of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/12\/cyclone-relief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyclone Relief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}