{"id":2347,"date":"2005-09-04T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-04T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T08:28:02","slug":"106356-beds-volunteered-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/04\/106356-beds-volunteered-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"106,356 beds volunteered &#8211; so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the &#8216;can do&#8217; spirit of private citizens compared to the slogging bureaucracy of big government, the private sector wins, hands down!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moveon.org\">MoveOn.org,<\/a> the civic action, antiwar group, posted a volunteer registry at their website for people wishing to offer shelter in their homes or businesses to families and individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina.  I have been watching with amazement, and a few tears, as the numbers continue to climb, driven by the generosity of Americans throughout the country.   While the government gets all the headlines, we, the people, still do a mighty fine job of getting things done &#8230; and without costing the taxpayers a dime.  It really doesn&#8217;t get any better than this.<\/p>\n<p>SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE:  114,006 beds<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurricanehousing.org\/\">Watch the numbers here,<\/a> or better still, participate if you are able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the &#8216;can do&#8217; spirit of private citizens compared to the slogging bureaucracy of big government, the private sector wins, hands down! MoveOn.org, the civic action, antiwar group, posted a volunteer registry at their website for people wishing to offer shelter in their homes or businesses to families and individuals displaced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}