{"id":3782,"date":"2008-03-21T01:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/3782"},"modified":"2008-03-21T01:02:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T05:02:45","slug":"changing-the-world-25-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/03\/changing-the-world-25-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Loans That Save Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is possibly the most ingenious idea I&#8217;ve heard about in a long long time &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\" rel=\"external\">Kiva.org<\/a>.<\/strong> It&#8217;s a revolutionary new approach that might one day replace the age-old concept of charity. Check out this newsreel that explains how it works and meet the people who&#8217;s lives have been changed &#8211; its how I heard about Kiva in the first place:<\/p>\n<div class=\"notice\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/20569267#20569267\" class=\"video_link\" rel=\"external\">MSNBC Newsreel: Kiva<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Kiva is so successful it has received adulation and been featured in Business Week, BBC, CNN Money and the New York Times amongst many others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/app.php?page=businesses&#038;action=about&#038;id=40814\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/kiva-entrepeneur.jpg\" title=\"Messavi Kiti - a successful entrepreneur and a hopeful Kiva recipient\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today you can make a huge impact on a persons life with just $25. Who will you choose?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is possibly the most ingenious idea I&#8217;ve heard about in a long long time &#8211; Kiva.org. It&#8217;s a revolutionary new approach that might one day replace the age-old concept of charity. Check out this newsreel that explains how it works and meet the people who&#8217;s lives have been changed &#8211; its how I heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-entrepeneurial-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}