{"id":2761,"date":"2010-05-29T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2010\/05\/29\/a-little-help-from-our-net-friends\/"},"modified":"2010-05-29T15:39:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:39:24","slug":"a-little-help-from-our-net-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"a-little-help-from-our-net-friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone called &#8216;fake&#8217; asked a very important question on <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/154334\/Help-me-help-my-friend-in-DC%22\">Metafilter<\/a>.  He wanted help and information because his friends from Russia were about to walk into a situation he wasn&#8217;t comfortable with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The program promised a job offer in advance, but didn&#8217;t deliver. They said they would send one via email, but failed there, too.<br \/>\nHer contact in the USA barely speaks English, doesn&#8217;t answer her calls but does answer mine. He has asked her and her friend to meet in NYC tonight around midnight, with promises of hostess work in a lounge. Yes, I know how horrific that sounds- that&#8217;s why I am working all possible angles here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All the answering meta peeps pooled their resources and may have averted a potential trafficking situation.  What some of these people did was dangerous and courageous. Of course we&#8217;ll never know if these women were in any danger to begin with, but what the internet can do in these types of scenarios is amazing.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/archives\/2010\/05\/everyday_heroes.html%22\">The 19th Floor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone called &#8216;fake&#8217; asked a very important question on Metafilter. He wanted help and information because his friends from Russia were about to walk into a situation he wasn&#8217;t comfortable with: The program promised a job offer in advance, but didn&#8217;t deliver. They said they would send one via email, but failed there, too. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}