{"id":3999,"date":"2014-03-11T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T04:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2014-03-11T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T04:45:42","slug":"wash-students-play-bieber-song-repeatedly-raise-more-than-900-for-african-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/11\/wash-students-play-bieber-song-repeatedly-raise-more-than-900-for-african-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"Wash. students play Bieber song repeatedly; raise more than $900 for African orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4015\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bieber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4015\" alt=\"Justin Bieber (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bieber-222x300.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Bieber (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TENINO, Wash. &#8211; High school students in the western Washington community of Tenino (Ten-NINE-o) who hatched the idea of endlessly playing a Justin Bieber song to raise money for African orphans have eclipsed their goal &#8211; they got classmates to donate more than $900.<\/p>\n<p>KING-TV reports (<a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/8gk7GG\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/is.gd\/8gk7GG<\/a>) that Tenino High School student government members started Monday, blasting the Bieber song &#8220;Baby&#8221; on repeat during breaks between classes and at lunch time. Student government president Connor Stakelin noted that for some students &#8220;it&#8217;s incentive to donate because they don&#8217;t want to hear it anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The immediate goal was to raise $500 for students at a school in the west African country of Ghana. The idea to support the school came from Tenino Elementary School Principal Dave Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The high school hopes to raise at least $1,200 with this fundraiser and others.<\/p>\n<p>Stakelin says students raised more than $915 by first period Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>And the music stopped.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: KING-TV,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.king5.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TENINO, Wash. &#8211; High school students in the western Washington community of Tenino (Ten-NINE-o) who hatched the idea of endlessly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[947,948,946],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","tag-bieber","tag-fundraiser","tag-wa","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","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=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}