{"id":360,"date":"2007-11-11T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/360"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:05:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:05:39","slug":"fight-hunger-without-getting-off-your-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/360","title":{"rendered":"Fight Hunger (without getting off your butt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new website called <a href=http:\/\/freerice.com\/>FreeRice<\/a> that helps you improve your vocabulary and fight world hunger.  When you go there, you play a simple but addictive vocabulary game, and every time you answer a question correctly, the site donates ten grains of rice through the <a hef=http:\/\/www.wfp.org\/how_to_help\/Ways_to_Donate\/freerice.asp?section=4\u00e2\u0160\u201a_section=5>UN World Food Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I thought this was another site to get humans to participate in an automated task that computers can&#8217;t do, like <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/352>read book scans<\/a> or <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/86>create picture captions<\/a>.  But it works by generating advertising revenue.  When you click on the answers, you indicate your visit to the advertisers, and they pay for the rice.  <\/p>\n<p>I just donated 2200 grains of rice, and was able to reach a vocabulary level of 48.  And I was worried I was going to be unproductive today!\n<\/p>\n<p><!--c7f682b1e875858a4f9e11deb9d5a803--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new website called FreeRice that helps you improve your vocabulary and fight world hunger. When you go there, you play a simple but addictive vocabulary game, and every time you answer a question correctly, the site donates ten grains of rice through the UN World Food Program. At first, I thought this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,41,6,20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-information-literacy","category-international","category-social-justice","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}