{"id":3296,"date":"2010-08-13T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T09:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T09:12:44","slug":"the-floods-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"The floods in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I received the following e-mail from a friend in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">&#8220;How are you? Hope you will be fine and enjoy well.. I am fine and my study is going well. As you know Pakistan is facing the worst ever disaster in its history in the form of floods\u2026. The flood caused destruction at large scale which affected millions of people in the last few days. According to one estimate, the number of people affected by the flood is about 13.8 million. This number is more than the combined total of those hit by tsunami (Asia, 5 million, 2004), Kashmir quake (3 million, 2005) and Haiti quake (3 million, 2010). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">I would kindly request you help the poor people inside Pakistani by highlighting this issue on your blog\u2026 maybe rich people inspire by it and give aid for the affected people\u2026.. The people are poor and they have lost everything. Their homes destroyed and they have been displaced\u2026\u2026\u2026I hope that you will make call for their immediate help and assistance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have already made a donation to the Disasters Emergency Committee and, if you wish to do so, please go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donate.bt.com\/dec_form_pfa.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I received the following e-mail from a friend in Pakistan. &#8220;How are you? Hope you will be fine and enjoy well.. I am fine and my study is going well. As you know Pakistan is facing the worst ever disaster in its history in the form of floods\u2026. The flood caused destruction at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}