{"id":15368,"date":"2012-01-13T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:29:15","slug":"advocacy-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/advocacy-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy Charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnewsnetwork.ca\/sunnews\/straighttalk\/archives\/2012\/01\/20120113-075317.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0There was a time when being a charity meant doing something real, something tangible.<\/p>\n<p>Operating a soup kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Providing medical help to those in need overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Helping orphans here in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Providing valuable goods or services.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s real charity work.<\/p>\n<p>No longer.<\/p>\n<p>Now it appears that hyper-political lobbying can count as charitable work too.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can be a full-time whiner, and that counts as charity work!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn\u2019t intended to be a description of the Anglican Church of Canada, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.anglican.ca\/parish-life\/social-justice-and-advocacy\/current-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\">it is an apt characterisation:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Social Justice and Advocacy Committee is organizing groups of Anglicans to meet with their newly elected and re-elected MPPs in the next few months to build positive relationships and discuss ways of advancing progress on the critical issues of poverty, hunger and affordable housing facing our society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: \u00a0There was a time when being a charity meant doing something real, something tangible. Operating a soup kitchen. Providing medical help to those in need overseas. Helping orphans here in Canada. Providing valuable goods or services. That&#8217;s real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/advocacy-charities\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,578],"class_list":["post-15368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}