{"id":2280,"date":"2010-08-18T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2010-08-18T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:33:48","slug":"support-water-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/support-water-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Water Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:D-P005_Kein_Trinkwasser.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"No drinking water, prohibition sign D-P005 acc...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/42\/D-P005_Kein_Trinkwasser.svg\/300px-D-P005_Kein_Trinkwasser.svg.png\" alt=\"No drinking water, prohibition sign D-P005 acc...\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:D-P005_Kein_Trinkwasser.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy and haven&#8217;t done a very good job of promoting my fundraising efforts for Water Projects in Kenya. \u00a0Nevertheless, families need clean access to water throughout the world. \u00a0Can you imagine not having clean water? You couldn&#8217;t wash your dishes, laundry, or even get a drink. \u00a0You could wash your hair but it wouldn&#8217;t be soft and you&#8217;d need more than conditioner to make it look good.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do?<\/p>\n<p>We turn on the faucet and clean water comes out. \u00a0Occasionally, during the snow melt in Minneapolis our water has some weird smells to it and tastes a little odd, but it is still safe to drink. \u00a0We snuff our noses and buy bottled water. \u00a0Some people don&#8217;t have that choice. \u00a0They spend hours each day to get water that we&#8217;d refuse to drink.<\/p>\n<p>We can change that.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video and consider<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/worldvision\"> making a donation<\/a> on my behalf for clean water in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sx-2UtqmjyY\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sx-2UtqmjyY<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/worldvision\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">DONATE TODAY FOR CLEAN WATER! <\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia I&#8217;ve been busy and haven&#8217;t done a very good job of promoting my fundraising efforts for Water Projects in Kenya. \u00a0Nevertheless, families need clean access to water throughout the world. \u00a0Can you imagine not having clean water? You couldn&#8217;t wash your dishes, laundry, or even get a drink. \u00a0You could wash your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-world-vision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-AM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2175,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/water-sources\/","url_meta":{"origin":2280,"position":0},"title":"Water Sources","author":"crossn81","date":"August 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this video created by Team World Vision. httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wo3FlrzVhaw Can you imagine drinking water like that? 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