{"id":4608,"date":"2011-11-10T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2011-11-10T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T12:01:51","slug":"kim-kardashian-and-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/4608","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian and Famine in the Horn of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you really think Kim Kardashian actually thought, said, or did anything significant about the current famine in the Horn of Africa?<\/p>\n<p>If so, let me dispel that notion for you, and draw your attention to this quip by <a title=\"A View from the Cave\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aviewfromthecave.com\" target=\"_blank\">A View from the Cave<\/a>&#8216;s Tom Murphy, who initially posted it on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Fact: The declared famine in the Horn of Africa has lasted 1.57 Kardashian marriages. It will also cost 250 Kardashian weddings to fund the $2.5 billion relief effort.<\/p>\n<p>Tom is also one of the brains behind <a title=\"DAWNS Digest\" href=\"http:\/\/dawnsdigest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DAWNS Digest<\/a> &#8212; the acronym stands for &#8220;development and aid workers news service&#8221; &#8212; which is a great resource for anyone working in development. For less than $3 a month, you get the news relevant to your work delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Did you really think Kim Kardashian actually thought, said, or did anything significant about the current famine in the Horn of Africa? If&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/4608\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kim Kardashian and Famine in the Horn of Africa<\/span><\/a><\/div>\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,"_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":""},"categories":[30,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-famine","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1ck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}