{"id":3087,"date":"2008-10-27T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T08:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/27\/the-monkey-dance\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T08:15:49","slug":"the-monkey-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/27\/the-monkey-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As has already been noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2008\/10\/26\/get-ready-for-the-monkey-dance\/\">people with too much free time<\/a>, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=19006\">DonorsChoose challenge<\/a> stands at $6,254. This is a big jump, and happened because somebody emailed to ask whether a donation of theirs had been counted; when I logged in to check, I found that there was $715 in account credits, which I believe are donations that didn&#8217;t get made to a specific project. I&#8217;m not sure how that happened.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, even though I&#8217;m not sure of the origin of those (it&#8217;s possible they&#8217;re left over from last year), I put them toward the current challenge projects, because it seemed the honest thing to do. If somebody out there would like to kick in $750 so as to exclude the possibility that I just put myself over the top, please, feel free.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I commend to you the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/leadershipboard.html?category=17\">other ScienceBlogs challenges<\/a>, which are similarly full of good and deserving projects in search of funding. If your charitable impulses remain unsatisfied, please give them money&#8211; between the lousy economy and the non-participation of some bloggers who were part of last year&#8217;s drive, the haul is a bit lower than it might be.<\/p>\n<p>And watch this space for monkey dancing. It&#8217;ll be a little while, as I&#8217;ve got other stuff to do first, but I&#8217;ll try to get the video done in the next week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has already been noted by people with too much free time, my DonorsChoose challenge stands at $6,254. This is a big jump, and happened because somebody emailed to ask whether a donation of theirs had been counted; when I logged in to check, I found that there was $715 in account credits, which I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/27\/the-monkey-dance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Monkey Dance<\/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-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}