{"id":10569,"date":"2012-02-13T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2012-02-13T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:24:46","slug":"in-other-news-donations-keep-pouring-in-to-feed-the-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=10569","title":{"rendered":"In other news, donations keep pouring in to feed the monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bananas-for-the-monkeys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10570\" title=\"Bananas for the monkeys\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bananas-for-the-monkeys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bananas-for-the-monkeys.jpg 249w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bananas-for-the-monkeys-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a>When I added the donation button last week to allow people to contribute toward buying more bananas for the monkeys, little did I know how literally some people would take it.<\/p>\n<p>Not only have cash donations through PayPal come in, but one smart &#8212; or smart aleck &#8212; fan of the monkeys sent this donation through the mail. Despite the trip of about 800 miles, this bunch of bananas arrived in pretty good shape.<\/p>\n<p>Just after the picture was taken, the bananas were split up and eaten by hungry monkeys, who would be happy to swear that I never feed them. So they would like to thank their anonymous benefactor for keeping them alive another day. If this person wants to &#8220;out&#8221; himself as the one behind this act of charity in the comments, he&#8217;s welcome to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the monkeys will be scouring the web for Tuesday&#8217;s news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I added the donation button last week to allow people to contribute toward buying more bananas for the monkeys, little did I know how literally some people would take it. Not only have cash donations through PayPal come in, but one smart &#8212; or smart aleck &#8212; fan of the monkeys sent this donation <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=10569\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-2Kt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10579,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}