{"id":5044,"date":"2013-10-12T22:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2013-10-13T02:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T10:55:25","slug":"being-asked-to-donate-after-your-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/being-asked-to-donate-after-your-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Asked To Donate After Your Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the post office today as I had to buy a stamp to deliver a letter and after paying about one dollar for it the lady asked me if I wanted to donate my change to a charity.  You did mention the name of it but unfortunately I didn&#8217;t recognize it nor did I know what this charity was all about.  A a result, I said no.<\/p>\n<p>This happens a lot and in some ways I do feel bad for having to say no as my assumption is this would be going towards a needy cause.  At the same time, not knowing exactly what the organization does makes it hard to support.  I know some people say they just say yes as they don&#8217;t want to look like a \u201ccheapskate\u201d or someone who \u201cdoesn&#8217;t care\u201d about others.  Doesn&#8217;t it make sense to say yes only if you understand and believe what the organization is all about though?<\/p>\n<p>Another way I think about it too is that I&#8217;m sure most people donate in their own way which costs a lot of time or money through other means and one person shouldn&#8217;t have to try and appease to every organization.  Otherwise you will probably end up as the charity yourself financially. Just feels safer this way too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the post office today as I had to buy a stamp to deliver a letter and after paying about one dollar for it the lady asked me if I wanted to donate my change to a charity. You did mention the name of it but unfortunately I didn&#8217;t recognize it nor did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1845,3201,4122,4564],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-charity","tag-donation","tag-pitch","tag-shopping-donation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1jm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}