{"id":4072,"date":"2015-04-27T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T01:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2015-04-27T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T01:08:54","slug":"jai-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/jai-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some things you need to know about Nepal:<\/p>\n

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  1. It is\u00a0one of the poorest countries in the world.<\/li>\n
  2. When I lived there, we lived\u00a0a few\u00a0buildings down from\u00a0the Ministry of Roads and the street\u00a0was almost undriveable. Which is to say that…<\/li>\n
  3. Their infrastructure is not good<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  4. The recent earthquake was massive. And it was shallow. Which means that it hit the area hard.<\/li>\n
  5. The death toll from the earthquake is currently 3,800. And rising.<\/li>\n
  6. People are sleeping outside because there is nowhere else for them to go.<\/li>\n
  7. It’s fucking freezing<\/em> in April there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Basically, what I’m saying is… Nepal needs some help. And we all need to pitch in. The best way that we can help is with cold, hard cash.<\/p>\n

    If I was younger, and unattached, I’d be on a plane over there to help rebuild some houses. If I was Warren Buffett, I’d give charities working there a billion dollars. But, I am neither of these things. So, all I can ask is that you please donate a few bucks. There are some great charities listed here<\/a>. You could also donate to the school where I volunteered<\/a>. I promise you, they make every penny count.<\/p>\n

    I am so grateful to have stayed in touch with my host family on Facebook, which is how I know that they’re all ok. But, I met a lot of wonderful people in my four months there, and I have no way of knowing if they’re all safe. I do know that a lot of the amazing temples and monuments that we visited have been destroyed.<\/p>\n

    I’m trying to figure out the best way to put a benefit together. But, in the meantime, please donate.<\/p>\n

    \"Nepali<\/a><\/p>\n

    It feels like nobody is talking about the earthquake. And we should all be talking about the earthquake. Nepal’s economy can’t rebuild on its own<\/a>. Please, please, please. Make a donation. Spread the word. Tell your elected officials that we need to send aid. If you’re friends with Warren Buffett, ask if he’d like to send a billion dollars. Every little bit helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some things you need to know about Nepal: It is\u00a0one of the poorest countries in the world. When I lived there, we lived\u00a0a few\u00a0buildings down from\u00a0the Ministry of Roads and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hopeless-idealist","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-13G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}