{"id":5741,"date":"2010-03-21T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2010-03-21T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T12:37:22","slug":"charity-founded-by-former-elected-officials-blows-entire-budget-on-overhead-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/charity-founded-by-former-elected-officials-blows-entire-budget-on-overhead-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Founded By Former Elected Officials Blows Entire Budget On Overhead, Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/politics\/story\/A299588661F592F4862576EC000FF7E9?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">What a surprise.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After seven years of raising money, the Animal House Fund didn&#8217;t reach its goal of building a new city pound.<\/p>\n<p>But organizers did know how to throw a party.<\/p>\n<p>Young supporters donned their Hellenic best for a toga fundraiser in Soulard, while comedian Elayne Boosler emceed a gala at City Hall. Andy Warhol paintings \u2014his dog portraits \u2014 provided the backdrop for another benefit at an area art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The photo opportunities were plenty. The direct benefit to the dogs and cats in the city&#8217;s dilapidated shelter, though, remains questionable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The founder was the former head of the St. Louis city board of aldermen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a surprise. After seven years of raising money, the Animal House Fund didn&#8217;t reach its goal of building a new city pound. But organizers did know how to throw a party. Young supporters donned their Hellenic best for a toga fundraiser in Soulard, while comedian Elayne Boosler emceed a gala at City Hall. Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}