{"id":38,"date":"2004-06-29T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/2004\/06\/29\/200000-raised-by-boston-red-sox-for-d"},"modified":"2004-06-29T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T15:34:12","slug":"200000-raised-by-boston-red-sox-for-dominican-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/2004\/06\/29\/200000-raised-by-boston-red-sox-for-dominican-flood-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"$200,000 raised by Boston Red Sox for Dominican flood relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a51'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>What started as a request by Red Sox DH\/first baseman David Ortiz to his teammates to put money in a shoebox&nbsp;in the clubhouse to be put towards relief efforts for the recent disastrous floods in the western Dominican Republic, turned into a much larger campaign to raise funds to send to the DR.&nbsp; Red Sox owner John Henry himself chipped in $100,000 to go along with the $31,000 given by Red Sox fans between May 31 and June 14.&nbsp; This latter figure was also matched by both the Red Sox Foundation and the Red Sox players, and corporate donations put the total over $200,000, along with 1,000 pairs of shorts and 1,200 t-shirts.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>At the beginning of the disaster in late May, there were numerous stories out of the DR of problems in the distribution of aid, and chaos in the humanitarian relief efforts.&nbsp; Hopefully this magnanimous effort by the fans, players, team and companies in Boston will be put to good use.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a request by Red Sox DH\/first baseman David Ortiz to his teammates to put money in a shoebox&nbsp;in the clubhouse to be put towards relief efforts for the recent disastrous floods in the western Dominican Republic, turned into a much larger campaign to raise funds to send to the DR.&nbsp; Red Sox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}