{"id":2394,"date":"2014-09-28T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2014-09-28T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:39:09","slug":"think-before-you-do-the-ice-bucket-challenge-and-a-few-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/think-before-you-do-the-ice-bucket-challenge-and-a-few-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Think! &#8230; before you do the ice bucket challenge, and a few other things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that I didn&#8217;t fancy the idea of getting a bucket of water over my head to avoid making a charitable donation.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s true that I could be more charitable. But, this video is a memorable way of delivering the message: Water is precious, look after it.<\/p>\n<p>People in Ireland (where there&#8217;s relatively loads of water &#8211; it&#8217;s got a reputation!) are grumpy because the government is bailing themselves out with another new tax, on water this time.\u00a0 But at the other end of the spectrum,\u00a0 3\/4 of a billion people can&#8217;t get clean water.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-c1lawVlqZY?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just water we don&#8217;t think about.\u00a0 There&#8217;s food and energy and community.\u00a0 Think!\u00a0 to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that I didn&#8217;t fancy the idea of getting a bucket of water over my head to avoid making a charitable donation.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s true that I could be more charitable. But, this video is a memorable way of delivering the message: Water is precious, look after it. People in Ireland (where there&#8217;s relatively &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/think-before-you-do-the-ice-bucket-challenge-and-a-few-other-things\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think! &#8230; before you do the ice bucket challenge, and a few other things<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-CC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}