{"id":4117,"date":"2009-09-29T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/29\/donors-choose-2009-what-would\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T09:48:48","slug":"donors-choose-2009-what-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/29\/donors-choose-2009-what-would\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors Choose 2009: What Would You Pay to See Me Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid has a bit of flu, so we’re all a little discombobulated in Chateau Steelypips. I’m going to be trying to get a full day’s worth of work before noon, which won’t leave room for much blogging.<\/p>\n

But here’s something for you to think about\/ comment on: the day after tomorrow is October 1, which means another year’s DonorsChoose blogger challenge. Last year, I famously got $6,000 in contributions by offering to dance like a monkey<\/a>, but I’m not sure what would follow that. So,<\/p>\n

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What should I offer to do if I manage to reach the overall challenge goal of several thousand dollars in total contributions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m obviously not going to do anything illegal or immoral, but I’m willing to sacrifice a little dignity for a good cause, as you can see at the link above. So, what can I offer to do that would get you to donate money to help school kids through DonorsChoose?<\/p>\n

There will, of course, be some smaller incentives for individual donors, including advance copies of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>. But what should I offer as an overall incentive for meeting the overall challenge goal? If you’ve got an idea, leave me a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid has a bit of flu, so we’re all a little discombobulated in Chateau Steelypips. I’m going to be trying to get a full day’s worth of work before noon, which won’t leave room for much blogging. But here’s something for you to think about\/ comment on: the day after tomorrow is October 1, which… Continue reading Donors Choose 2009: What Would You Pay to See Me Do?<\/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":[5,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}