{"id":4268,"date":"2009-11-24T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/congratulations-to-lauren-urof\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T09:49:00","slug":"congratulations-to-lauren-urof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/congratulations-to-lauren-urof\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Lauren Uroff and tcmJOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this year&#8217;s DonorsChoose fundraiser, I <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/donors_choose_2009_help_kids_w.php\">promised books as prizes<\/a> to people who contributed to my challenge. Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/how_to_teach_physics_to_your_d_5.php\">the finished books are ready<\/a>, it&#8217;s time to congratulate the winners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Uroff<\/strong> wins one copy for giving the largest individual donation of the people who forwarded me receipts (the largest overall contribution was from Hewlett Packard, but we&#8217;re not giving books away to faceless corporations). The person who posts as <strong>tcmJOE<\/strong> was the winner of the random drawing (the person has a real name, but I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s public. He also used an email address that may be a spam trap, and hasn&#8217;t responded to my request for a snail-mail address.). Congratulations to both of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, yeah, yeah,&#8221; you say, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/donorschoose_the_final_days_-o.php\">We were promised a puppet show<\/a>. Where are the puppets?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I dropped $50-ish on puppets just yesterday. Once I finish this last batch of grading, the puppet show is the next thing on my to-do list. You&#8217;ll get your  puppets soon, have no fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this year&#8217;s DonorsChoose fundraiser, I promised books as prizes to people who contributed to my challenge. Now that the finished books are ready, it&#8217;s time to congratulate the winners. Lauren Uroff wins one copy for giving the largest individual donation of the people who forwarded me receipts (the largest overall contribution was from Hewlett&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/congratulations-to-lauren-urof\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to Lauren Uroff and tcmJOE<\/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":[5,44,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","category-publicity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}