{"id":1593,"date":"2008-01-09T16:42:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-01-10T08:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T08:36:52","slug":"andrew_olmstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Olmsted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to write about Andrew Olmsted, but nothing intelligent or useful comes out that hasn&#8217;t been said better by others. He was a part of the larger community of Damn Good People I&#8217;ve met through blogging &#8211; people who I agree with, disagree with, have learned a ton from, and hope maybe to have shown a cheap trick or two. I value that community extraordinarily much, as did Andrew apparently. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;ve read his post from beyond linked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/a_death_in_the_family_andrew_olmsted_killed_in_iraq.php\" target=\"browser\">below<\/a> and found on Hilzoy&#8217;s site <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/01\/andy-olmsted.html\" target=\"browser\">here<\/a>; if not, go do it now.<\/p>\n<p>I know I keep asking people to donate to things, but look at it this way &#8211; there are a lot of places where a hundred or two $15 checks could make a real difference. And if I can help steer some of those checks, and help some folks pay bills, maybe it&#8217;s a part of what I can do as part of in &#8216;making a tiny dent in history&#8217;s Green Monster&#8217; as Andrew put it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/01\/how-to-help.html\" target=\"browser\">Andrew&#8217;s family just suggested<\/a> that if people want to do something in his memory, they might donate to the children of Capt. Thomas Casey, who was killed coming to Andrew&#8217;s aid.<\/p>\n<p>I just sent $50 to<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Thomas Casey Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fund<br \/>\nP.O. Box 1306<br \/>\nChester, CA 96020<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;ll match the next $200 that Winds readers send. Put your commitment in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Regular blogging will resume later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course Andrew Olmsted&#8217;s family is soliciting donations for someone else &#8211; they are as generous and open-hearted as he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}