{"id":6049,"date":"2012-02-25T08:13:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/25\/con-or-bust-auction-nearing-it\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T08:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T08:13:51","slug":"con-or-bust-auction-nearing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/25\/con-or-bust-auction-nearing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Con or Bust Auction Nearing Its End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Kate is running an auction to benefit the <a href=\"http:\/\/con-or-bust.livejournal.com\/\">Con or Bust<\/a> project providing financial support for fans of color(*) to attend science fiction\/ fantasy conventions. The auction is run via LiveJournal, with a variety of cool items on offer in individual posts to that community, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10unyPWcfKyVDZJ_4jJBan2aCMh6X3rhOx7s4V2BgRcE\/edit\">overall index here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items on offer are signed copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/con-or-bust.livejournal.com\/104389.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/con-or-bust.livejournal.com\/103942.html\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> (in your choice of several languages). You can also bid on <a href=\"http:\/\/con-or-bust.livejournal.com\/119979.html\">some of our excess books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bidding ends at midnight Sunday, so you&#8217;ve got a little time left. Check out the lists of stuff, and get your bids in soon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(* &#8211; &#8220;Fans of color&#8221; here meaning &#8220;non-white fans,&#8221; not people with a deep attachment to particular hues. I am not interested in hearing your theories (if you have them) about how this is racist and discriminatory against white people. Any such comments to this post will be ruthlessly moderated.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Kate is running an auction to benefit the Con or Bust project providing financial support for fans of color(*) to attend science fiction\/ fantasy conventions. The auction is run via LiveJournal, with a variety of cool items on offer in individual posts to that community, with an overall index here. Among the items&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/25\/con-or-bust-auction-nearing-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Con or Bust Auction Nearing Its End<\/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":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049","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=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}