{"id":1784,"date":"2016-05-02T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2016-08-12T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:10:59","slug":"easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2016\/05\/easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems in countries far from home can seem easy to solve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/globe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1822\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/globe.jpg\" alt=\"globe\" width=\"215\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2016\/apr\/23\/western-do-gooders-need-to-resist-the-allure-of-exotic-problems\">Problems in countries far from home can somehow seem far easier to solve<\/a>\u00a0than problems in your own country. They aren&#8217;t. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2016\/apr\/23\/western-do-gooders-need-to-resist-the-allure-of-exotic-problems\">Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of &#8216;exotic problems.&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0It&#8217;s yet another excellent piece from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian Development Professionals Network<\/a>. It&#8217;s a must-read for all those that want to volunteer abroad, are seeking a career in international humanitarian aid and development, or want to donate to such causes.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned piece is a good companion to <a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2016\/01\/05\/vanity\/\" target=\"_blank\">my earlier blog on vanity volunteering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess I&#8217;m vanity blogging&#8230; but then, aren&#8217;t we all?<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/volunteer\/international.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reality Check: Volunteering Abroad \/ Internationally<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/travel\/go_and_do_good.html\">transire benefaciendo<\/a>: &#8220;to travel along while doing good&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problems in countries far from home can somehow seem far easier to solve\u00a0than problems in your own country. They aren&#8217;t. Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of &#8216;exotic problems.&#8217;\u00a0It&#8217;s yet another excellent piece from the Guardian Development Professionals Network. It&#8217;s a must-read for all those that want to volunteer abroad, are seeking a career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[23,38,44,52,579,244,968,1431,530,532],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-abroad","tag-africa","tag-aid","tag-asia","tag-career","tag-humanitarian","tag-overseas","tag-sharehumanity","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fFJB-easy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}