{"id":217,"date":"2006-10-16T20:37:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=217"},"modified":"2006-10-16T20:37:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T02:37:40","slug":"kiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Kiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$25 is nothing.  In an average month I spend more than $25 on beer and about another $50 on gambling.  And this is me <em>on our new budget<\/em>.  Before that I was a money disbursing tornado of fiscal irresponsibility.  <\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\"target=\"blank\">Kiva<\/a> you can loan $25 (or more) to an entrepenuer in the developing world.  Your money is added to that of others and together it forms a microloan.  Each person has a specific goal they are trying to reach (buy a water tank, make used clothes stall bigger, repair trailer, etc) and a repayment schedule.  Once the microloan is repayed in full you get your money back, and you can then reloan it to someone else or go buy some beer.  I think it&#8217;s genius, and I plan to participate in the next week or two, as soon as we work it into our budget.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovelyuniverse.com\/\"target=\"blank\">Julia<\/a>, who did it first)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$25 is nothing. In an average month I spend more than $25 on beer and about another $50 on gambling. And this is me on our new budget. Before that I was a money disbursing tornado of fiscal irresponsibility. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2Tie6-kiva","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}