{"id":4585,"date":"2010-08-20T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2010-08-20T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:04:59","slug":"samosa-sold-to-help-pakistan-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/08\/samosa-sold-to-help-pakistan-flood-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Samosas sold to help Pakistan flood relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4586\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4586\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4586\" title=\"Tony Wu packs samosas\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/samosasforpakistan.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Wu packs samosas\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Wu, a third-year Computer Science student and summer employee in the Office of International Services, packs samosas for purchase by Brock faculty and staff on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About 1,000 samosas were sold at Brock today as the Office of International Services raised money for flood relief in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the sale of samosas, which were $1.25 each or $12 per dozen, will go to the Canadian Red Cross. The organization is participating in aid efforts in Pakistan, where more than 1,600 people have been killed and four million left homeless by a flood.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to Pakistan relief efforts, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\" target=\"_blank\">redcross.ca<\/a> or call 1-800-418-1111. You may also send the Office of International Serviecs a cheque earmarked \u201cPakistan Floods 2010? and payable to the Canadian Red Cross, and International Services will deliver it on your behalf. Tax receipts are available for donations of more than $10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2010\/08\/18\/pakistan-flooding-relief-effort.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News \u2014 Pakistan flood waters to remain for weeks<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/article.asp?id=35760&amp;tid=001\" target=\"_blank\">Crisis in Pakistan \u2014 Canadian Red Cross<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4587\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4587\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4587\" title=\"Jeanette Davis \" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/samosasale2.jpg\" alt=\"samosasale2\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanette Davis, International Services administrative assistant, prepares sauce to accompany the samosas.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,000 samosas were sold as the Office of International Services raised money for flood relief in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[16,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}