{"id":2901,"date":"2011-04-21T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/04\/21\/fake-charity\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:13:52","slug":"fake-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/04\/21\/fake-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/kika.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"584\" alt=\"advert for Kika bracelets\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAt <cite>Unfogged<\/cite> they&#8217;re annoyed at the juvenile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unfogged.com\/archives\/week_2011_04_17.html#011230\">I Love Boobies anti-breast cancer campaign<\/a> both for its inherent sexism and it&#8217;s misguided focus on outdated detection methods. Coincidently, yesterday I got annoyed at a similar sort of charitable campaign at the local hospital S. is staying in (until tomorrow). As you can see from the picture above, in the public canteen they&#8217;re now selling these anti-cancer bracelets to benefit Kika. Kika, which stands for &#8220;KInderen KAnkervrij&#8221; or &#8220;children cancer free&#8221; is a charity that sponsors research for combatting cancer in children and which supports the seven cancer centra that do this sort of research in the Netherlands. A worthwhile cause and there&#8217;s nothing wrong by supporting it by selling some token of compassion for it &#8212; unless it costs twelve euro fifty of which only one euro goes to the charity it supposedly supports!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause that sounds remarkably like using this charity to get rid of the cheap tat you cannot sell on its own merits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Unfogged they&#8217;re annoyed at the juvenile I Love Boobies anti-breast cancer campaign both for its inherent sexism and it&#8217;s misguided focus on outdated detection methods. Coincidently, yesterday I got annoyed at a similar sort of charitable campaign at the local hospital S. is staying in (until tomorrow). As you can see from the picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[1337,1336],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-capitalism","category-oh-those-crazy-cloggies","tag-fake-charity","tag-kika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}