{"id":86357,"date":"2017-01-23T00:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86357"},"modified":"2017-01-23T00:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:11:55","slug":"matt-damon-says-hell-pitch-clean-water-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/23\/matt-damon-says-hell-pitch-clean-water-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon says he&#8217;ll pitch clean water to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86358\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Matt-Damon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86358\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Matt-Damon.png\" alt=\"Matt Damon says he'll pitch clean water to Trump  (Photo: Siebbi\/flickr)\" width=\"617\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Matt-Damon.png 617w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Matt-Damon-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Damon says he&#8217;ll pitch clean water to Trump (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siebbi\/473884996\/in\/photolist-HSMuY-yJZLUv-yf9d7u-yfayVE-HSREe-9Frvcp-9FJjhg-xAB4Uz-4B6BSx-HSRB6-HP22G8-yurSiN-5myQcV-8PJm7G-5kd97M-3eVur7-5khqNY-9roTwK-2B7Bqv-5daEHm-ebjqAw-5jN3Va-5jSjME-5jN3Ap-3b6mjh-EPtz1-9pYyZL-9mXL5X-5khqZm-fenvwe-feCqky-fentVH-fenrBe-feCpX3-9REAkS-6Jb7kS-9iASE9-yytsQX-ygSu3q-dGbQHA-MCBtZS-6LZrL5-feBMX5-5kd9f4-feo7ok-fentxi-5HXSHJ-fens36-feoahn-feo7MH\"> Siebbi\/flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PARK CITY, Utah\u2014Matt Damon took the cause of clean water to the Sundance Film Festival, where he said he&#8217;s hoping to pitch Donald Trump on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Damon told The Associated Press on Saturday that clean water accessibility isn&#8217;t a partisan issue and demands \u201can all-hands-on-deck approach to solve this.\u201d The actor has publicaly supported Democrats, including Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>When asked his response to the election, Damon demurred and said hopes Trump will be open to backing clean water programs like his non-profit Water.org. Said Damon: \u201cHopefully we&#8217;ll get our turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon in 2009 founded Water.org with civil engineer Gary White. It uses micro-finance loans to bring hygienic connections to water and toilets to impoverished communities. Damon also spoke about the issue at the Davos Forum last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARK CITY, Utah\u2014Matt Damon took the cause of clean water to the Sundance Film Festival, where he said he&#8217;s hoping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[9869,14124,14125],"class_list":["post-86357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-donald-trump","tag-matt-damon","tag-sundance-film-festival","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86357","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}