{"id":144,"date":"2006-01-04T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2006\/01\/that-charity-thing-again\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T06:18:48","slug":"that-charity-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/01\/04\/that-charity-thing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"That charity thing again&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <!--post=\"41\"-->, I sort-of explained my system of having opinions of charities based on the quality of the goodies they send me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been kinda slacking off on that, I guess, mostly because it&#8217;s only the ones that suck that have any obvious ranking&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Veterans Associations [DAV, VFW, VVA, all those] are pretty cool.  They usually send not just address labels [and bunches of them], but little note pads.   The note pads would be cooler if they had a magnet on them.<\/p>\n<p>PeTA still sucks.  Their labels are always the same, and getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>Joining PeTA is the &#8220;National Arbor Day Foundation.&#8221;  They sent me a &#8216;please send us money and become a member for a year&#8217; solicitation, offering me ten &#8216;trees&#8217; [not sure if they&#8217;re just seeds or what], plus a lilac bush, plus books and whatnot&#8230;and a sheet of address labels that look like their printer ink was all&#8230;leaky.<\/p>\n<p>It was just one small sheet, and there were a few stickers, but they were crappy, specific stickers.  &#8220;Happy Birthday,&#8221; &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, bleh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In , I sort-of explained my system of having opinions of charities based on the quality of the goodies they send me. I&#8217;ve been kinda slacking off on that, I guess, mostly because it&#8217;s only the ones that suck that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/01\/04\/that-charity-thing-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-2k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}