{"id":8,"date":"2008-05-05T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-05-06T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T17:49:21","slug":"cyclone-damage-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/05\/cyclone-damage-in-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone damage in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/05\/myanmar.cyclone\/art.rebuild.afp.gi.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclone in Burma\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you may have already heard, the damage is far more extensive than they originally estimated. 10,000 is quite far off from 350. I still haven&#8217;t got contact with my brother &#8211; which worries me but I think he should be okay.<\/p>\n<p>For now, if you want to help, please donate to <a title=\"ICRC donation page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icrc.org\/web\/eng\/siteeng0.nsf\/iwpList2\/Help_the_ICRC?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">ICRC<\/a> and designate it to Myanmar on the drop down list.<\/p>\n<p>I look up a way to send money as soon as I saw the 10,000 number and realized &#8216;oh crap. this is really bad. I must do something.&#8217; As far as I know, this is the most direct route to get food\/water\/medicine to the people who are affected since ICRC is already there and helping out.  If you know of a more effective way to help, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: the number is climbing as more info is available.  sigh. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I put up the pictures I took when I went home last time on the picture slide show widget on the right to remind everyone of what a beautiful country it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have already heard, the damage is far more extensive than they originally estimated. 10,000 is quite far off from 350. I still haven&#8217;t got contact with my brother &#8211; which worries me but I think he should be okay. For now, if you want to help, please donate to ICRC and designate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,10,9,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thinkstick.dreamhosters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}