{"id":2143,"date":"2006-06-26T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2006\/06\/26\/biggest-donation-in-history\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:13:00","slug":"biggest-donation-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/biggest-donation-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Donation in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally try to refrain from posting content not related to the topics covered by this blog, but this news is too wonderful to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Buffett &#8211; second richest person in the world after Bill Gates &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/06\/25\/magazines\/fortune\/charity1.fortune\/index.htm\">is giving&nbsp;roughly&nbsp;83% of his stock in Berkshire<\/a>, which is currently about $31 billion,&nbsp;to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. An additional&nbsp;2%, which is about $6 billion,&nbsp;is going to other charity foundations, including those run by Buffett&#8217;s three children. This is not only good news for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and those other charities to receive such a large donation, but to all the people that will benefit from the Gateses and Warren Buffett himself.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally try to refrain from posting content not related to the topics covered by this blog, but this news is too wonderful to pass up. Warren Buffett &#8211; second richest person in the world after Bill Gates &#8211; is giving&nbsp;roughly&nbsp;83% of his stock in Berkshire, which is currently about $31 billion,&nbsp;to the Bill and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I normally try to refrain from posting content not related to the topics covered by this blog, but this news is too wonderful to pass up. Warren Buffett &#8211; second richest person in the world after Bill Gates &#8211; is giving&nbsp;roughly&nbsp;83% of his stock in Berkshire, which is currently about $31 billion,&nbsp;to the Bill and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}