{"id":31355,"date":"2015-05-17T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31355"},"modified":"2015-05-14T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T02:13:28","slug":"real-philanthropy-slim-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/17\/real-philanthropy-slim-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Real philanthropy, Slim style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/carlos-slim-opens-his-manhattan-mansion-to-undocumented-roomers\/\" target=\"_blank\">This report<\/a> says that one of the richest men in the world is opening new frontiers in philanthropy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perennial contender for World\u2019s Richest Man Carlos Slim announced Friday that he had reconsidered selling his Upper East Side home for $80 million, and instead was opening the Beaux Arts mansion to undocumented roomers. \u201cEver since I became the second largest shareholder in New York Times Inc., I\u2019ve started reading the editorials,\u201d explained the telecom monopolist. \u201cAnd they\u2019ve convinced me! What\u2019s all this obsession with documents anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican oligarch continued, \u201cIf you can fool my doorman into letting you in once, or if you have the moxie to throw a brick through my window and crawl in over the broken glass, well, it would be inhumane to evict you. And if you have kids or parents, then they can come too because I wouldn\u2019t want to stand in the way of family reunification. If I find you inside my house, then <em>mi casa es su casa!<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is clearly too good to check (but I did verify that the story isn&#8217;t dated April 1st, so it must be true, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report says that one of the richest men in the world is opening new frontiers in philanthropy: Perennial contender for World\u2019s Richest Man Carlos Slim announced Friday that he had reconsidered selling his Upper East Side home for $80 million, and instead was opening the Beaux Arts mansion to undocumented roomers. \u201cEver since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[744,554,463,315],"class_list":["post-31355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-charity","tag-immigration","tag-parody","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-89J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31356,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31355\/revisions\/31356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}