{"id":3015,"date":"2008-10-06T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/06\/the-empress-is-not-pleased\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:04:10","slug":"the-empress-is-not-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/06\/the-empress-is-not-pleased\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empress Is Not Pleased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Empress of Eastern New York is dissatisfied:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-de6675faad068a64615f2c8d05be0cca-sm_grumpy.jpg\" alt=\"i-de6675faad068a64615f2c8d05be0cca-sm_grumpy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why? Because at this point, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=19006\">DonorsChoose Challenge entry<\/a> has only raised $475 from 7 donors. A <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2008\/10\/01\/donorschoose-challenge\/\">bunch of <i>theorists<\/i><\/a> are cleaning our clocks.<\/p>\n<p>This makes SteelyKid grumpy. And we don&#8217;t want a grumpy baby.<\/p>\n<p>To put things into perspective, this blog gets about 2,000 hits per day, so the challenge goal of $6,000 amounts to just $3 per daily hit. So, if something you read here gave you at least $3 worth of amusement, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=19006\">click and contribute<\/a>. If you do, we&#8217;ll have a happy SteelyKid:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c3a3dfc547c42017368b4e9b4429df14-smiley.jpg\" alt=\"i-c3a3dfc547c42017368b4e9b4429df14-smiley.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And isn&#8217;t that better?<\/p>\n<p>For a larger donation, you can claim one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/fixing_education_donorschoose.php\">bigger incentives on offer<\/a>, or just <a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/360317.html\">enter to win a cross-stitch from Kate<\/a> (one virtual ticket for every $5 donated).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empress of Eastern New York is dissatisfied: Why? Because at this point, my DonorsChoose Challenge entry has only raised $475 from 7 donors. A bunch of theorists are cleaning our clocks. This makes SteelyKid grumpy. And we don&#8217;t want a grumpy baby. To put things into perspective, this blog gets about 2,000 hits per&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/06\/the-empress-is-not-pleased\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Empress Is Not Pleased<\/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-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}