{"id":407,"date":"2007-05-21T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:17:09","slug":"nat-geo-japans-tsunami-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts #5:  Nat Geo on Japan&#8217;s Tsunami Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Blog.  I voice enough criticism of Japan on this space.  Let&#8217;s also give praise where it is due.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Geographic Dec 2005, Japan&#8217;s record regarding keeping its international promises regarding tsunami relief has been excellent.  In fact, it&#8217;s basically the only country which made (even superseded) enormous pledges of donations for victims of the big waves a couple of years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>Bravo, Japan!  Shame on everyone else, especially the oil-rich countries&#8211;both in terms of pledge and fulfillment.  Where&#8217;s the Muslim feeling of brotherhood when you need it?  Debito<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/natgeo1205001.jpg\" title=\"natgeo1205001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/natgeo1205001.jpg\" alt=\"natgeo1205001.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nENDS\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6b828048463fc027d9cdcfd817912665--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Geographic Dec 2005, Japan&#8217;s record regarding keeping its international promises regarding tsunami relief has been excellent.  In fact, it&#8217;s basically the only country with made (even superseded) its goal of donations for victims of the big waves a couple of years ago.  Bravo, Japan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-facts","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}