{"id":1904,"date":"2007-10-29T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/29\/donorschoose-limping-to-the-fi\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:46:20","slug":"donorschoose-limping-to-the-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/29\/donorschoose-limping-to-the-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"DonorsChoose: Limping to the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/leadershipboard.html?category=17&#038;zone=0\">ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose challenge event<\/a> runs through the end of this month, which means we&#8217;ll take new contributions through the end of Wednesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=17166&#038;zone=0\">The Uncertain Principles challenge<\/a> stands at $3,412 at the moment, which is terrific&#8211; more than I realistically expected to get (I set the challenge goal too high at the start).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to say that I have a brilliant idea of something to offer to get even more contributions, but, frankly, I&#8217;m beat. I&#8217;ve gotten a few new donations in the last week, but not one entry for either of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/donorschoose_two_new_incentive.php\">incentive offers<\/a>. I suspect we&#8217;re pretty well tapped out, and further solicitations would just be beating my head against a wall..<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll extend the current incentive offers through Wednesday (for a $30 donation, you can request a post on a topic of your choice; any donation will get you a chance to win a guest post; and the largest donor will get a dog dialogue on a topic of their choice), and concentrate on writing posts to pay off the outstanding offers. Other than that, I&#8217;m going to shut up.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve already donated, thank you very much. If you&#8217;d like to donate now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=17166&#038;zone=0\">here&#8217;s the link again<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose challenge event runs through the end of this month, which means we&#8217;ll take new contributions through the end of Wednesday. The Uncertain Principles challenge stands at $3,412 at the moment, which is terrific&#8211; more than I realistically expected to get (I set the challenge goal too high at the start). I&#8217;d love&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/29\/donorschoose-limping-to-the-fi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DonorsChoose: Limping to the Finish Line<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}