{"id":4423,"date":"2012-02-14T06:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:33:03","slug":"stash-to-pacific-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/02\/14\/stash-to-pacific-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Stash to Pacific Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to those who yesterday suggested that they might be able to send some fabric\/threads etc to the <a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/02\/13\/books-to-pacific-islands\/\" title=\"Books to the Pacific islands\">Pacific Island prisoners<\/a>, to go with my books. Your enthusiasm for this project is really lovely.<\/p>\n<p>I passed on the offers to the wife, and she was thrilled that people would like to help them. I plan to keep in contact with the couple, so hopefully we might even see some of the ladies&#8217; work in time.<\/p>\n<p>If there is anyone else who would like to assist, please let me know. I have permission to pass on their details to anyone who would like to assist with supplies. Just let me know if this is something you would like to do.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again for your generosity and kindness. It is really lovely to think that from so far away, we might be able to improve the lives of others.<\/p>\n<p>From the organisation&#8217;s literature, I really appreciated these statements of what they believe (this is just an excerpt &#8211; there were more great points):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe that the current state of a person is no indicator as to their future.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that the person sitting forgotten in the prison cell has the same worth as the person sitting in the palace.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that in the prisons of &#8212;- are some truly great and awesome people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to those who yesterday suggested that they might be able to send some fabric\/threads etc to the Pacific Island prisoners, to go with my books. Your enthusiasm for this project is really lovely.<\/p>\n<p>I passed on the offers to the wife, and she was thrilled that people would like to help them. I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-threads-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9060,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/9060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}