{"id":1785,"date":"2008-08-08T19:21:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2008-08-08T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T01:21:50","slug":"kiva-loan-paid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Kiva Loan Paid Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received word on Monday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/app.php?page=businesses&amp;action=about&amp;id=10264\" title=\"One of my microlending opportunities\">one of my Kiva.Org loans<\/a> had been paid off.\u00c2? (For those not in the know, Kiva.Org allows you to lend as little as $25 to people in third-world countries to help them to start small businesses.\u00c2? They partner with microlending institutions and they have a really high success rate.)<\/p>\n<p>I am really proud of Hagigat Kurbanova and of her repaying the loan and I feel blessed that I was able to be a part of making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; I had the choice of having my $25 investment returned to me or&#8230; I could re-lend it out again.\u00c2? I totally chose to re-lend it and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/app.php?page=businesses&amp;action=about&amp;id=55665\" title=\"My new Kiva loan\">this<\/a> is my new loan from that money.\u00c2? (This person also needs another $175 lent to her at the time of me blogging to make her loan complete and I think there&#8217;s a 2 day deadline coming up for her, so she&#8217;d be a prime candidate if you want to get involved.)<\/p>\n<p>I also have two other loans out: one for a dressmaker in Lebanon that is 25% repaid and another that I made today to a Lebanese grocer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received word on Monday that one of my Kiva.Org loans had been paid off.\u00c2? (For those not in the know, Kiva.Org allows you to lend as little as $25 to people in third-world countries to help them to start &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-sN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}