{"id":5129,"date":"2010-10-21T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/21\/donorschoose-reminder-tuckeriz\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:26:31","slug":"donorschoose-reminder-tuckeriz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/21\/donorschoose-reminder-tuckeriz\/","title":{"rendered":"DonorsChoose Reminder: Tuckerize Your Pets, and Program This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been flogging the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=80064\">DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge<\/a> as hard this year as in past year, but I do want to post a reminder that the challenge is ongoing. If you donate, the money will go to help deserving school kids; if that&#8217;s not enough, it can also earn you cool stuff like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The largest individual donor will get a signed copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a>, and the chance to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/how_to_teach_physics_to_your_p.php\">have their pet appear in the sequel<\/a>. Want to read about your companion animal moving at relativistic speeds? Make a big donation (current leader is just over $370), and you can get it.<\/li>\n<li>Too cash-strapped to buy your way in. Never fear&#8211; one randomly selected donor will get the same package: signed book, and an animal in the next book named after your favorite pet. Any size donation qualifies you for a chance in the drawing.<\/li>\n<li>Prefer immediate gratification? For a donation of $20, I will <a href=\"\nhttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/donorschoose_fundraiser_2010.php\">write a blog post on a topic you suggest<\/a>, within 48 hours or receiving the email with the donation receipt. (Limit imposed arbitrarily to force me not to proccrastinate&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To qualify for any of these offers, just forward the donation confirmation email to the address in the Contact tab at the top of this page. I&#8217;m also open to suggestions of monkey dance\/ puppet show type &#8220;big incentives&#8221; should we manage to pass some arbitrary threshold to be determined later&#8211; leave suggestions in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to those who have already donated&#8211; we&#8217;ve already raised more than $1000. If you haven&#8217;t contributed yet, and have some spare money, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=80064\">donate to one of the many science-themed projects<\/a> seeking funding this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been flogging the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge as hard this year as in past year, but I do want to post a reminder that the challenge is ongoing. If you donate, the money will go to help deserving school kids; if that&#8217;s not enough, it can also earn you cool stuff like: The largest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/21\/donorschoose-reminder-tuckeriz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DonorsChoose Reminder: Tuckerize Your Pets, and Program This Blog<\/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":[5,67,44,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-book_writing","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","category-how-to-teach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","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=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}