{"id":75998,"date":"2018-02-15T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/bill-and-melinda-gates-this-is-why-we-give-our-billions-away"},"modified":"2018-02-15T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:02:41","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-this-is-why-we-give-our-billions-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/bill-and-melinda-gates-this-is-why-we-give-our-billions-away","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates: This is why we give our billions away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-and-melinda-gates-this-is-why-we-give-our-billions-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two reasons to do something like this,\u201d the letter says, referring to the $4 billion a year the foundation spends in developing countries trying to end child mortality, distribute vaccinations and improve access to education, plus another $500 million it shells out in the United States.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The billionaire philanthropists are committed to doing the best they can for the world with what they have.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/13\/why-bill-and-melinda-gates-give-away-billions.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/13\/why-bill-and-melinda-gates-g...lions.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are two reasons to do something like this,\u201d the letter says, referring to the $4 billion a year the foundation spends in developing countries trying to end child mortality, distribute vaccinations and improve access to education, plus another $500 million it shells out in the United States. The billionaire philanthropists are committed to doing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}