{"id":3373,"date":"2012-11-22T12:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2012-11-22T12:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:47:53","slug":"africa-for-norway-new-charity-single-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Africa For Norway New charity single out now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/freezingnorway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3374\" title=\"freezingnorway\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/freezingnorway-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/freezingnorway-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/freezingnorway.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A spoof music video appealing to Africans to donate radiators for freezing children in Norway got almost 430 000 hits in five days on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video, a parody of the 1985 US charity song <em>We are the World<\/em> written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, was the idea of a Norwegian group which said it aimed to challenge stereotypes about Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We need to change the simplistic explanations of problems in Africa,&#8221; the Norwegian Students&#8217; and Academics&#8217; International Assistance Fund said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=DgnYFNpVwKE\">here<\/a> timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spoof music video appealing to Africans to donate radiators for freezing children in Norway got almost 430 000 hits in five days on YouTube. The video, a parody of the 1985 US charity song We are the World written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, was the idea of a Norwegian group which said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Africa For Norway New charity single out now!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,123],"tags":[2203,2202,2201,2200],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","category-world","tag-african-aid-to-norway","tag-aid-to-norway","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-spoof-on-aid"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/freezingnorway.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}