{"id":294,"date":"2008-03-01T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/03\/01\/people-too-busy-to-do-charity-work\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T06:29:07","slug":"people-too-busy-to-do-charity-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/03\/01\/people-too-busy-to-do-charity-work\/","title":{"rendered":"People too busy to do charity work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubs.mq.edu.au\/macbushwalk\/sponsor\/red-cross.gif\" title=\"red cross\" alt=\"red cross\" align=\"left\" height=\"156\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"156\" \/>A survey conducted by the Red Cross says busier lifestyles are behind a fall in the numbers of people volunteering to help disadvantaged people in their community .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 people took part in the online survey that aimed to gauge public perception about the elderly, people living with a mental illness and the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The survey revealed that volunteer figures were down compared to a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that almost half of the population think Australians are less compassionate towards vulnerable groups compared with 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/02\/29\/2175863.htm\" title=\"ABC news\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey conducted by the Red Cross says busier lifestyles are behind a fall in the numbers of people volunteering to help disadvantaged people in their community . More than 1,200 people took part in the online survey that aimed to gauge public perception about the elderly, people living with a mental illness and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}