{"id":200,"date":"2010-05-14T18:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=200"},"modified":"2010-05-16T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T18:48:21","slug":"white-party-passes-us30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"US$30,000 from the White Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic20053.jpg\"><\/a>With a flurry of extra donations this week, the total\u00a0amount raised\u00a0for Lequeracabu&#8217;u School has passed US$30,000!<\/p>\n<p>The amount we&#8217;ve raised is so much greater than our expectations that we did think about just building the bare minimum school at Lequeracabu&#8217;u and putting some money to another school.\u00a0 But while a school building is an essential starting point, there is so much more that is needed to create good education.\u00a0 We&#8217;re about doing things properly and so we&#8217;re going to use the extra funds to improve the quality and longevity of the school building and to fund things like teacher training, scholarships and books.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Together everyone has helped contribute the funds necessary to put in place the &#8220;full package&#8221; for Lequeracabu&#8217;u&#8217;s 84 children &#8211; something we hadn&#8217;t even hoped might happen from one night.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the first sod turning expected for next Thursday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic04313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-219\" title=\"Some of the White Party's 180 guests\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic04313-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic200533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-223\" title=\"More guests\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic200533-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic200531.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a flurry of extra donations this week, the total\u00a0amount raised\u00a0for Lequeracabu&#8217;u School has passed US$30,000! The amount we&#8217;ve raised is so much greater than our expectations that we did think about just building the bare minimum school at Lequeracabu&#8217;u and putting some money to another school.\u00a0 But while a school building is an essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}