{"id":177,"date":"2011-10-31T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:01:58","slug":"pattern-sales-donated-to-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2011\/10\/pattern-sales-donated-to-flood-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern sales donated to flood relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the Sock Club which has been so much fun (truly a gift that just keeps on giving), 2011 hasn&#8217;t been the best of years. My cousin sent me a photo of her flooded house which is 5 blocks from my parents&#8217; house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-178\" title=\"Flooding\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flood-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flood-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flood.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading the international news (I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m pretty guilty of not keeping up much of the time),\u00c2\u00a0 you may know that about a third of Thailand is flooded.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/oct\/29\/bangkok-floods-redcross-warning?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\"> One article from Guardian<\/a> had the subtitle <em>&#8220;Red Cross warns of &#8216;humanitarian crisis&#8217; in Thailand&#8217;s capital, as people face food shortages, illness and crocodile attacks&#8221;<\/em> which really is no joke. Not only crocodiles, but Bangkok is home to a lot of snakes including king cobras. And then there is the threat of malaria and dengue fever. All in all, it&#8217;s really sad to see what&#8217;s happening. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/31\/world\/asia\/thailand-flood\/index.html?hpt=wo_c2\" target=\"_blank\">This CNN article<\/a> has some photos, and I&#8217;m surprised how everybody seems to mostly be going on with life even with all the water around them.<\/p>\n<p>So for today and all of November, 100% of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/stores\/cookie-a-knitwear\" target=\"_blank\">pattern download sales<\/a> will be donated to flood relief, most likely the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.redcross.or.th\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Thai Red Cross Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the Sock Club which has been so much fun (truly a gift that just keeps on giving), 2011 hasn&#8217;t been the best of years. My cousin sent me a photo of her flooded house which is 5 blocks from my parents&#8217; house. If you&#8217;ve been reading the international news (I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}