{"id":455,"date":"2006-12-30T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/12\/30\/urgent-need\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T12:32:33","slug":"urgent-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/urgent-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to help save a life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shevet.org\/\">take a look<\/a> at these children who&nbsp; have serious heart defects.&nbsp; Surgeries like these cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Israeli doctors are donating their skills to operate on the hearts of these Iraqi kids.&nbsp; But there are still some&nbsp;costs of transportation, housing, and hospital expenses. &nbsp;You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shevet.org\/\">give directly<\/a> online and then track the progress of the child at the website.&nbsp; My family came to love the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shevet.org\/\">Shevet Achim<\/a> through one of their staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/01\/16\/in-glory-philip-berg\/\">Philip Berg<\/a>, who passed away earlier this year.&nbsp; Maybe there&#8217;s something you can do without to help save a child today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/WindowsLiveWriter\/85d1e2d3bc81_C8D6\/hemen-big%5B2%5D.jpg\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/WindowsLiveWriter\/85d1e2d3bc81_C8D6\/hemen-big_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>Hemen Kawa, 5 years old from northern Iraq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to help save a life, take a look at these children who&nbsp; have serious heart defects.&nbsp; Surgeries like these cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Israeli doctors are donating their skills to operate on the hearts of these Iraqi kids.&nbsp; But there are still some&nbsp;costs of transportation, housing, and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/urgent-need\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}