{"id":978,"date":"2009-12-15T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=978"},"modified":"2009-12-15T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T17:05:18","slug":"best-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Best Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I have a yearly Christmas tradition of donating to a charity.\u00a0 We usually pick a cause or an organization that we are passionate about, or has a special meaning to us that year.\u00a0 This year, we are donating to the Best Friends Animal Society<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 If you aren’t familiar with them, they are an amazing non-profit group dedicated to the animals we humans share our lives with, whether it be dogs, cats, horses, parrots, or just about any other little critter.\u00a0 They even take in wild animals in need of medical attention or a refuge.\u00a0 Animals lucky enough to end up there receive compassionate care from very dedicated animal lovers, and those pets that can be are eventually placed with adoptive families.\u00a0 But those that can’t be placed, for one reason or another, are still given a wonderful life at the sanctuary – Best Friends is a no-kill organization.\u00a0 Which means it is very expensive to operate and maintain.<\/p>\n

This is the same organization that runs Dog Town<\/span><\/a>, which you might have caught on the National Geographic Channel.\u00a0 Dog Town received a lot of attention for taking in Michael Vick’s rescued pit bulls, many of which have since been rehabilitated and placed in loving homes<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s a glimpse of what they do there in Dog Town:<\/p>\n\n

I mention this because the Best Friends Animal Society has been given an amazing gift this year.\u00a0 Several very generous philanthropists have offered to match all donations to the society, dollar for dollar, up to 1 million dollars.\u00a0 Let me say that again. ONE MILLION DOLLARS.\u00a0 From now until the end of the year (only a few weeks left!) if you donate to the society, your donation will double what the society receives.\u00a0 So if your holiday season includes charitable giving, please consider giving to the Best Friends Animal Society.\u00a0 They’re an amazing organization.<\/p>\n

Thanks for listening.<\/p>\n

Donate here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife and I have a yearly Christmas tradition of donating to a charity.\u00a0 We usually pick a cause or an organization that we are passionate about, or has a special meaning to us that year.\u00a0 This year, we are donating to the Best Friends Animal Society.\u00a0 If you aren’t familiar with them, they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-fM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}