{"id":146,"date":"2008-02-26T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-02-26T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T09:54:27","slug":"its-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/its-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2008\/02\/21\/raising-money-for-charity\/\">piece over at journeytorussia<\/a> about how touched I&#8217;ve been by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/journeytorussia\">donations we&#8217;ve received<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/everyman\/\">Everyman<\/a>. The thing that has struck me has been the amount of money people have parted with &#8211; Everyman is an amazing charity that makes sure people know about Male Cancers and the more money we raise, the more awareness we raise the better.<\/p>\n<p>The donations that have really struck me though are the little ones, the one that really made me smile and get a really warm fuzzy feeling was from a young chap on ebay who I bought a camping shovel from &#8211; when we completed the purchase he looked at our website and decided to donate the profit from the shovel purchase &#8211; how cool is that!?<\/p>\n<p>So first off I want to say thank you to everyone that has donated, and secondly I want to point you in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/thelongestday2008\">another justgiving page<\/a> &#8211; that of Patrick&#8217;s latest adventure &#8211; The Longest Day &#8211;  John O&#8217; Groats to Lands End&#8230;non stop and in under 24hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a short piece over at journeytorussia about how touched I&#8217;ve been by the donations we&#8217;ve received for Everyman. The thing that has struck me has been the amount of money people have parted with &#8211; Everyman is an amazing charity that makes sure people know about Male Cancers and the more money we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/its-for-charity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s for charity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-charity","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}