{"id":295,"date":"2012-02-10T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=295"},"modified":"2012-02-10T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:38:12","slug":"offering-money-no-takers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Standing outside a broken volunteer with money in my hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m walking down the street and get stopped by an effervescent volunteer who claims to come from <a href=\"https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/unicef_logox150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"unicef_logox150\" src=\"https:\/\/trouble.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/unicef_logox150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a>UNICEF. \u00a0Now&#8230; come on, who doesn&#8217;t like unicef? \u00a0All around good people who have done good things for kids for a\u00a0long time, as far as I can tell. \u00a0But they\/she was pressing for a $x per month donation\/membership kind of thing. \u00a0After declining that I asked about a one-time donation on the spot. \u00a0She said that she could \u00a0absolutely do that&#8230; but when I said that I wouldn&#8217;t give my physical address, but could pay in cash or credit card&#8230; and&#8230; she wouldn&#8217;t take my money.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; charity&#8230; money&#8230; and they won&#8217;t take it without some way of spamming or reaching out to you at a future date.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>To the marketing folks &#8211; you will not take over the world, however you try. \u00a0 Why don&#8217;t charity&#8217;s take anonymous contributions? \u00a0Money for a good cause is a good thing&#8230; no?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m walking down the street and get stopped by an effervescent volunteer who claims to come from UNICEF. \u00a0Now&#8230; come on, who doesn&#8217;t like unicef? \u00a0All around good people who have done good things for kids for a\u00a0long time, as far as I can tell. \u00a0But they\/she was pressing for a $x per month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,19],"tags":[328,66,68,65,67],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-philosophy","tag-charity","tag-credit","tag-marketing","tag-money","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}