{"id":3791,"date":"2009-06-25T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2009-06-22T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:03:39","slug":"come-visit-angstylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"Come Visit Angstylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zabet over at the Anticraft blog recently joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\">Kiva<\/a>, a site which makes microloans to disadvantaged businesspeople who couldn&#8217;t qualify for a loan otherwise.  She posted about the lady she&#8217;s sponsoring <a href=\"http:\/\/theanticraft.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/i-recently-joined-kiva-and-made-my.html\">here<\/a>, and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Would anyone be interested in having an Angstylvanian lending team? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the best way to fix a problem is to throw money at it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>&#8211;Svetlana Vyalostova, Team Angstylvania Olympic coach<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who could refuse <em>that<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I joined, and my first loan has gone to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/app.php?page=businesses&#038;action=about&#038;id=114172\">lady in Azerbaijan<\/a> who raises cows.  (Shadow Jack steadfastly refuses to let me raise livestock, so now I can do it vicariously.)  You&#8217;re not on the hook for a large amount: They have a $25 minimum, but you can add small amounts to your account over time until you have enough to lend.<\/p>\n<p>I sort of love the idea of an entire team of goths on the same community-service bandwagon, so if you&#8217;d like to play along register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\">Kiva<\/a> and then go join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/team\/team_angstylvania\">Team Angstylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it as feeding the karma meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zabet over at the Anticraft blog recently joined Kiva, a site which makes microloans to disadvantaged businesspeople who couldn&#8217;t qualify for a loan otherwise. She posted about the lady she&#8217;s sponsoring here, and said: Would anyone be interested in having an Angstylvanian lending team? &#8220;Because the best way to fix a problem is to throw [&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-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}