{"id":5990,"date":"2009-12-01T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2010-07-30T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T06:04:48","slug":"nonprofit-christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5990","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Christmas shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many nonprofit institutions, this is not going to be a very merry Christmas. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singout.org\/index.html\"><em>Sing Out!<\/em><\/a>, for example, a nonprofit devoted to supporting folk music, and to &#8220;making music a part of our everyday lives.&#8221; Over the years, <em>Sing Out!<\/em> has published songs from people like Woodie Guthrie, Pat Humphries, Emmylou Harris, Mississippi John Hurt, Cordelia&#8217;s Dad, Pete Seeger, etc., etc. Like Seeger, <em>Sing Out!<\/em> gives lots of emphasis to socially conscious songs and music. It&#8217;s a good organization. I want them to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t have much money this year, but I always try to do some charitable giving at Christmas time &#8212; after I give money to Heifer Project, I&#8217;m thinking maybe I&#8217;ll give give some money to <em>Sing Out!<\/em>. I suppose if I were a Christmas-gift-giver, I could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singout.org\/memorder.html\">give subscriptions to <em>Sing Out!<\/em> magazine<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singout.org\/sopubs.html\">buy a few <em>Rise Up Singing<\/em> books to give as gifts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the mall owners and the big box stores need us to shop there so they can pay their workers starvation wages. But I think maybe I&#8217;ll spend my small Christmas budget with nonprofit organizations instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many nonprofit institutions, this is not going to be a very merry Christmas. Take Sing Out!, for example, a nonprofit devoted to supporting folk music, and to &#8220;making music a part of our everyday lives.&#8221; Over the years, Sing Out! has published songs from people like Woodie Guthrie, Pat Humphries, Emmylou Harris, Mississippi John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,47],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-roots-music","category-pop-culture","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}