{"id":16326,"date":"2014-08-29T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=16326"},"modified":"2014-08-31T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T21:41:07","slug":"youtube-friday-the-ice-bucket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=16326","title":{"rendered":"Youtube Friday:  The Ice Bucket Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/youtubefridaywide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/youtubefridaywide.jpg\" alt=\"youtubefridaywide\" width=\"1000\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/youtubefridaywide.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/youtubefridaywide-300x22.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSZuGryH81o?list=UUoCMQ0WDp1hgEtRhmMYsvAw\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge on Friday after being nominated by my niece Grace earlier in the week.\u00a0 I made my donation to an MND charity cause via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaq.org.au\/Donate.aspx\"><strong>MND Queensland<\/strong><\/a> where 100% of the donation goes to the group of your choosing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ice Bucket Challenge has copped plenty of backlash in social media over the last fortnight.\u00a0 Complaints range from over-exposure, water wastage to lack of awareness about the cause itself.\u00a0 That said, it&#8217;s indisputable that this has been an online fad that has raised vast sums of money for ALS\/MND charities and even though I suspect the trend will have a very short tail, it&#8217;s been no bad thing when you weigh up the fundraising benefits that have resulted from it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure other fund raising campaigners will be carefully studying the Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon to see if they can capture lightning in a bottle twice.<\/p>\n<p>If they can work out the formula, more power to them.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Edo<\/p>\n<p>P.S\u00a0 I was very cold for about an hour after this.\u00a0 Holy moly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice to see you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2079,2080,373,898],"class_list":["post-16326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ice-bucket-challenge","tag-mnd","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16331,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions\/16331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}