{"id":1006,"date":"2009-09-14T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:47:55","slug":"riding-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Riding for Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have signed up to ride my old bicycle 50km in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rideforrefugees.com\/home.php?c=1&#038;l=13\">Ride for Refugees<\/a>.  This is an international event to raise awareness and funds to support and advocate for refugees all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>I know a tiny bit about being a refugee &#8212; my family and I lived in the small West African country of Liberia until a few months after its civil war began in late 1989.  We left with only what we could carry. We were priviledged to have Canadian citizenship and a network of friends and family in Canada to help us rebuild our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the 67 million displaced people around the world do not have those luxuries; they must endure endless waiting in camps, wrangling with faceless bureacracies, and starting a new life in a strange land with no resources.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to sponsor me, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/my.e2rm.com\/personalPage.aspx?SID=2352148\">my sponsorship page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian donors will receive a tax receipt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have signed up to ride my old bicycle 50km in this year&#8217;s Ride for Refugees. This is an international event to raise awareness and funds to support and advocate for refugees all around the world. I know a tiny bit about being a refugee &#8212; my family and I lived in the small West &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riding for Refugees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[134,135],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-bicycle","tag-ride-for-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}