{"id":618,"date":"2009-02-25T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-02-25T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:32:14","slug":"books-for-fire-affected-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/02\/books-for-fire-affected-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for fire affected Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about a <a title=\"Book &amp; money appeal for bushfires\" href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com.au\/community.asp\" target=\"_blank\">book appeal<\/a> at Borders. In short donate a good quality book to them (or buy a new book as a donation) and it will go to a school or library in a fire affected area. What&#8217;s more, Borders will match your donation with a cash donation of the retail value of your book (as if new) &#8211; the money will also go towards restocking the schools &amp; libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Getting books back to those communities seems important to me &#8211;\u00a0 a chance to &#8216;get away&#8217; from the fires for a little while and give a sense of normalcy to them, plus helping those children learn.<\/p>\n<p>I also like this idea for those of us who are given already and can&#8217;t give much more even if we want to. Donating books you don&#8217;t need doesn&#8217;t cost you anything but could make a huge difference to those who lost everything in the fires earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Borders have a lot of boxes to collect these books&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>** The <a title=\"Bushfire Appeal 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org.au\/vic\/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm\" target=\"_blank\">red cross<\/a>\u00a0is still taking donations if you prefer to donate cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about a book appeal at Borders. In short donate a good quality book to them (or buy a new book as a donation) and it will go to a school or library in a fire affected area. What&#8217;s more, Borders will match your donation with a cash donation of the retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[910,912,911,171],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-books","tag-bushfires","tag-donate","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}