{"id":495,"date":"2005-07-19T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/19\/help-somebody\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T17:40:08","slug":"help-somebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/19\/help-somebody\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Somebody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/small-change-news\/\">sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>This via <a href=\"http:\/\/thephilanthropicenterprise.org\">The Philanthropic Enterprise<\/a> email group:<\/p>\n<p>The July 4 WASHINGTON POST had an obituary by Joe Holley of Thomas Cannon, the Richmond, Virginia postal worker who gave away $150,000 furing his lifetime even though he never made more than $20,000 a year.  I thought this paragraph was of interest:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Cannon made it known that he was opposed to a foundation carrying on his philanthropy after his death, since a foundation would require a bureaucracy and reams of paperwork.  Nor did he want his name attached to anything.  What he wanted in his honor and memory, he told the (Richmond) TIMES-DISPATCH, was simple:  &#8216;Help somebody.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>technorati:  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sCNN\" rel=\"tag\">sCNN<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/smallchangenews\" rel=\"tag\">SmallChangeNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted to sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork This via The Philanthropic Enterprise email group: The July 4 WASHINGTON POST had an obituary by Joe Holley of Thomas Cannon, the Richmond, Virginia postal worker who gave away $150,000 furing his lifetime even though he never made more than $20,000 a year. I thought this paragraph was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/19\/help-somebody\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help Somebody&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}