{"id":2768,"date":"2014-02-25T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2014-02-25T02:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:39:18","slug":"bestselling-us-author-albom-launches-drive-to-rebuild-libraries-in-typhoon-hit-philippine-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/25\/bestselling-us-author-albom-launches-drive-to-rebuild-libraries-in-typhoon-hit-philippine-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling US author Albom launches drive to rebuild libraries in typhoon hit Philippine city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1653931_10152200082652570_911111519_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2769\" alt=\"1653931_10152200082652570_911111519_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1653931_10152200082652570_911111519_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1653931_10152200082652570_911111519_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1653931_10152200082652570_911111519_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Mitch Albom<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines&#8211;U.S. author Mitch Albom has launched a drive to rebuild 10 libraries in Tacloban, a central Philippine city ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in November.<\/p>\n<p>National Book Store Foundation, his Philippine partner in the project, said Tuesday that Albom has pledged to raise $160,000, starting with his own contribution of $10,000 for the libraries.<\/p>\n<p>He has enlisted famous writers to contribute their books to the Donated Reading for Youth of the Philippines project, including Stephen King, Amy Tan and JK Rowling.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the bestselling memoir &#8220;Tuesdays with Morrie&#8221; visited Tacloban on Monday and also donated 40 boats to help fishermen in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He said during a visit to a damaged school in Tacloban that he was blessed to have many Filipino readers, and that he wanted to do something to help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen my own books pulled from the flood-damaged homes, mouldy, discolored, yet brought to me to sign,&#8221; Albom said. &#8220;It&#8217;s incredible and heartwarming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many areas of Tacloban were flattened by the powerful typhoon and the tsunami-like storm surge it unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>National Book Store Foundation has said it will match funds raised by Albom on a dollar for dollar basis until the goal is met.<\/p>\n<p>Albom is on a promotional tour in Manila for his latest book, &#8220;The First Phone Call from Heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Mitch Albom MANILA, Philippines&#8211;U.S. author Mitch Albom has launched a drive to rebuild 10 libraries in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[505],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-mitch-albom","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}