{"id":92,"date":"2008-04-04T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T02:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-04-04T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T02:02:22","slug":"improve-your-vocabulary-while-feeding-the-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Improve your vocabulary while feeding the hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerice.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/120_240_vertical.jpg\" alt=\"Visit freerice.com\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>I spent a few minutes at this website recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerice.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.freerice.com<\/a>, that seems like an intriguing way to help fight hunger. \u00a0Essentially, the site presents a vocabulary test which rewards each correct answer with a donation of 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. \u00a0The cost of the donation is underwritten by the banner ads on the page. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The site claims to make no profit from the ads, but some have questioned whether this is the case. \u00a0For example, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/freerice_legit_or_not_its_fun.php\" target=\"_blank\">this article on readwriteweb.com<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrsmedia.com\/iscreenstudies\/?cat=45\">this one at aftrsmedia.com<\/a>. But both of these naysayers base their calculations on each correct answer netting 10 grains of rice. \u00a0When I visited the site recently, the rate was 20 grains of rice per correct answer. \u00a0Perhaps the site owner raised the rate because the revenue from the pay-per-click ads was averaging out to be worth more than 10 grains of rice.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s an interesting idea. \u00a0Check it out. \u00a0And for trivia buffs, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeflour.com\" target=\"_blank\">freeflour.com<\/a>. Every correct answer earns a spoonful of flour. \u00a0I wonder&#8230;if I visit both sites enough times, will I be able to say I helped feed the hungry rice cakes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few minutes at this website recently, www.freerice.com, that seems like an intriguing way to help fight hunger. \u00a0Essentially, the site presents a vocabulary test which rewards each correct answer with a donation of 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. \u00a0The cost of the donation is underwritten by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improve your vocabulary while feeding the hungry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,11,15,17],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charity","tag-links","tag-musings","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}