{"id":40151,"date":"2013-12-20T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/on-the-optimization-of-charitable-giving.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T22:37:54","slug":"on-the-optimization-of-charitable-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/on-the-optimization-of-charitable-giving.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Optimization of Charitable Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Yeah, I admit, this thought did cross my mind during the whole Batkid foofoorah. \u00a0It&#39;s joyful to see a kid&#39;s dreams fulfilled, esp. a kid suffering from such an illness, and it was certainly heartwarming for all the participants and viewers &#8212; but from a purely pragmatic basis (in terms of saving or salvaging lives), it was not the most effective spending of a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8230; Batkid!\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Q6gnn-1VpP5Fgd6VkOc-wma4r3JguYxZRFBvy5La602ELX2aFOG1g6BRWALugJ6f3nmh1VGNi6vUz2ACAyO_YslR4MZWin_kis_l0cw=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/gawker.com\/reductionism-sucks-1487246339\/@IMissTheOldInternet'>How Many People Died Because of Batkid?<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Batkid. Remember Batkid? A sick child, running around San Francisco, living a wonderful dream? Terrible use of resources, that kid was.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'><span class='gpb-reshare'><br \/>This post has been reshared 1 times on <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/A2P9uZgAQHx' target='_new'>Google+<\/a><br \/><\/span> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/A2P9uZgAQHx' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I admit, this thought did cross my mind during the whole Batkid foofoorah. \u00a0It&#39;s joyful to see a kid&#39;s dreams fulfilled, esp. a kid suffering from such an illness, and it was certainly heartwarming for all the participants and viewers &#8212; but from a purely pragmatic basis (in terms of saving or salvaging lives), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/on-the-optimization-of-charitable-giving.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Optimization of Charitable Giving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40466,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40151\/revisions\/40466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}