{"id":291,"date":"2020-05-09T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=291"},"modified":"2020-05-09T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:59:18","slug":"news-historic-kindness-in-the-time-of-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/09\/news-historic-kindness-in-the-time-of-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Historic Kindness in the Time of Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article got me <strong>misty<\/strong> this morning: it describes a wave of Irish donations to help Native Americans currently suffering in the pandemic in remembrance &amp; thanks for a generous donation made by the Choctaw during the famine in Ireland in  the 1840s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Ireland has never forgotten the Choctaws\u2019 generosity. The tribe had endured a forced 600-mile trek that left thousands dead from hunger, cold and disease, and then impoverishment in Oklahoma, yet somehow rustled up $170 \u2013 which today translates to $5,350 \u2013 to help the Irish.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/may\/09\/irish-native-american-coronavirus-historic-bond\">Irish support for Native American Covid-19 relief highlights historic bond<\/a><\/h4><p>The list of recent donors reads like an Irish phone book. Aisling N\u00ed Chuim\u00edn, Shane \u00d3 Leary, Sean Gibbons, Kevin Boyle, Kevin Keane, Clare Quinn, Eamonn McDonald, on and on down a GoFundMe page that by Friday had raised $3.15m of a $5m goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>I support several charities that feed people already, and so this theme &#8211; EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ENOUGH FOOD &#8211; is close to my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on when you read this, the campaign may be over, but I already had donated (thanks to a great local journalist I follow on Twitter, who has a great heart), and want to post the link so you can also, if it&#8217;s still timely.  The official non-profit sponsor is the Rural Utah Project Education Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/NHFC19Relief?utm_source=customer&#038;utm_medium=copy_link&#038;utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet\">Navajo &#038; Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund organized by Ethel Branch<\/a><\/h4><p>The Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation are extreme food deserts with only 13 grocery stores on Navajo to serve some 180,000 people and only 3 small grocery marts on Hopi to serve some 3,000 people. These communities also have high numbers of elderly, diabetic, asthmatic, and cancer-afflicted (i.e., high risk) individuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article got me misty this morning: it describes a wave of Irish donations to help Native Americans currently suffering in the pandemic in remembrance &amp; thanks for a generous donation made by the Choctaw during the famine in Ireland in the 1840s: &#8220;Ireland has never forgotten the Choctaws\u2019 generosity. The tribe had endured a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/09\/news-historic-kindness-in-the-time-of-pandemics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News: Historic Kindness in the Time of Pandemics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[59,75],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pandemic","tag-solidarity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}