{"id":193,"date":"2013-04-02T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2013-04-02T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:59:28","slug":"branson-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/branson-steps-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Branson Steps Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tycoon Sir Richard Branson is to give half his fortune away to charity.<\/p>\n<p>He has joined a group of billionaires who have pledged to donate half their amassed wealth to try to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Media boss and his wife Joan, have joined Microsoft founder Bill Gates &#8211; said to be worth over $62 billion &#8211; and U.S. investor Warren Buffet, who trails in with $55 billion, as part of the Giving Pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard and his wife &#8211; worth an estimated \u00a33 billion &#8211; said in their pledge letter they wanted to use cash from their Virgin empire to create a &#8220;healthy, equitable and peaceful world for future generations to enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inewsu.com\/news\/sir-richard-branson-give-away-half-his-fortune-charity#.UUspu7ipCtw.reddit\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tycoon Sir Richard Branson is to give half his fortune away to charity. He has joined a group of billionaires who have pledged to donate half their amassed wealth to try to make the world a better place. The Virgin Media boss and his wife Joan, have joined Microsoft founder Bill Gates &#8211; said to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity-news","category-donation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}