{"id":5359,"date":"2011-01-22T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/22\/con-or-bust-auction-signal-boo\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:32:40","slug":"con-or-bust-auction-signal-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/22\/con-or-bust-auction-signal-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Con or Bust Auction Signal Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Kate was one of the people who helped organize a fundraising auction to send a few people to Wiscon. It&#8217;s that time again, and she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/56492.html\">seeking donations for the auction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last year, Con or Bust raised $6,183.89 and helped thirteen people of color attend WisCon. We weren&#8217;t able to meet all the requests for assistance, however, so I&#8217;m tentatively setting this year&#8217;s auction goal at $7,000. Bidding on the auction will start Monday, February 21, 2011, at 12:01 a.m. EST (GMT -5) and end Sunday, March 6, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. EST. You may post auction offers and make donations now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in donating or otherwise contributing, there are details at that link, and links therefrom. Comments are closed, here, because you should go over there to talk about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Kate was one of the people who helped organize a fundraising auction to send a few people to Wiscon. It&#8217;s that time again, and she&#8217;s seeking donations for the auction: Last year, Con or Bust raised $6,183.89 and helped thirteen people of color attend WisCon. We weren&#8217;t able to meet all the requests&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/22\/con-or-bust-auction-signal-boo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Con or Bust Auction Signal Boost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,222,37,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-charity","category-pop_culture","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}