{"id":5428,"date":"2011-02-28T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/28\/con-or-bust\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:17:56","slug":"con-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/28\/con-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Con or Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Kate runs a fundraiser to help support SF fans who want to attend Wiscon, which takes the form of an auction of various cool items, such as a <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/75195.html\">signed book about quantum physics<\/a>. You can find a big listing of everything at <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/\">the Con or Bust community on LiveJournal<\/a>, but some items of possible interest to readers of this blog include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/58570.html\">A sixpack of books from Small Beer Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/59044.html\">Homemade cookies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/59865.html\">Math and\/or science tutoring from an EE PhD student<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/60314.html\">Hand-spun yarn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/61628.html\">Homeade truffles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/63141.html\">A slightly used Sony Reader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/63338.html\">One photo a week for a year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/64951.html\">John M. Ford books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/74873.html\">A signed set of Rosemary Kirstein&#8217;s awesome Steerswoman books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re cheap but not that picky, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/con_or_bust\/75412.html\">list of items with very few bids<\/a>, that might be easily obtained.<\/p>\n<p>All auctions run through 11:59 EST this Sunday, March 6. Comments closed, because you should go over there to bid and comment, not waste time faffing about in my comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Kate runs a fundraiser to help support SF fans who want to attend Wiscon, which takes the form of an auction of various cool items, such as a signed book about quantum physics. You can find a big listing of everything at the Con or Bust community on LiveJournal, but some items of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/28\/con-or-bust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Con or Bust<\/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-5428","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\/5428","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=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}