{"id":456,"date":"2007-12-01T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=456"},"modified":"2007-12-01T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:15:00","slug":"world-aids-day-december-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/12\/01\/world-aids-day-december-1\/","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day &#8211; December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/aids.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Extend your hand to help the millions of children orphaned by AIDS and those afflicted with the disease itself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaidsday.com\/\">World AIDS Day<\/a> site offers an opportunity to give<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/get_involved.nsf\/child\/worldaidsday_2007_general\">World Vision<\/a> has many excellent programs reaching AIDS orphans around the world<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theseedofhope.org\/\">Seed of Hope<\/a> where my buddy Carl works in South Africa is right in the middle of the epidemic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I ordered a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvisionresources.com\/product_info.php?products_id=337\">The Skeptics Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis<\/a> a couple months ago, not because I was a skeptic, but rather just to be more informed so that I could inform others with some degree of authority. A couple stats stung me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the life expectancy in Botswana, Africa dropped from 65 years to 40 within 15 years<\/p>\n<p>every day 1,500 additional children are infected with HIV<\/p>\n<p>by 2010, it is estimated that there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans in the world<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I choose to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extend your hand to help the millions of children orphaned by AIDS and those afflicted with the disease itself. World AIDS Day site offers an opportunity to giveWorld Vision has many excellent programs reaching AIDS orphans around the worldSeed of Hope where my buddy Carl works in South Africa is right in the middle of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/12\/01\/world-aids-day-december-1\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-456","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-health","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}