{"id":9908,"date":"2010-03-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/helping-haiti-everybody-hurts-in-an-attempt-to\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:53:27","slug":"helping-haiti-everybody-hurts-in-an-attempt-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/helping-haiti-everybody-hurts-in-an-attempt-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-OVwFVNqYEY&amp;feature=digest\" target=\"_blank\">Helping Haiti &#8211; Everybody Hurts<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an attempt to raise money for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked Simon Cowell to arrange a charity single.Cowell chose <i>Everybody Hurts<\/i>, Brown agreed to waive VAT on the single and R.E.M. agreed to waive all royalties. The release was under the name <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helping_Haiti#Helping_Haiti_charity_single\" target=\"_blank\">Helping Haiti<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=everybody+hurts+helping+haiti&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">Here&rsquo;s an amazon.com link<\/a> to purchase the CD or MP3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping Haiti &#8211; Everybody Hurts In an attempt to raise money for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked Simon Cowell to arrange a charity single.Cowell chose Everybody Hurts, Brown agreed to waive VAT on the single and R.E.M. agreed to waive all royalties. The release was under the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/helping-haiti-everybody-hurts-in-an-attempt-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}