{"id":11573,"date":"2007-07-29T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/29\/all-you-beautiful-blogathon-pledgers-the-next-step.html"},"modified":"2007-07-29T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T22:06:20","slug":"all_you_beautiful_blogath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/29\/all_you_beautiful_blogath.html","title":{"rendered":"All you beautiful Blogathon pledgers &#8211; the next step"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blogathon 2007\" style=\"WIDTH: 192px; HEIGHT: 150px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/blogathon2007.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Some time in the next week or so, the Blogathon people will be sending out e-mail reminders to you about your pledge, with a link to the ERD giving page.&nbsp; That&#8217;s it.&nbsp; Nothing is being automatically deducted, no actual bill from the ERD being send &#8212; heck, the ERD will never know that you pledged, and if you never send them (or anyone) anything, nobody will ever know.<\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, you.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get a hop on the process, or look at your (many) options, you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.er-d.org\/waystogive.htm?menupage=36746\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; There are various simple donation funds, pages with corporations that do matching gifts, and lots of stuff under &#8220;Gifts for Life&#8221; (things like giving a goat, etc.) &#8212; you can even buy &#8220;Bishops Blend&#8221; coffee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 190px; HEIGHT: 56px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/ERD_logo_190-56.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The direct donation page is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servicenetwork.com\/Olg\/ERD\/Donate.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and it&#8217;s easy-peasy to use. It also includes a snail-mail address you can use if you prefer to send money by Post rather than over the Net (there&#8217;s even a Phone option).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for your help and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in the next week or so, the Blogathon people will be sending out e-mail reminders to you about your pledge, with a link to the ERD giving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11690,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/blogathon_update_9.html","url_meta":{"origin":11573,"position":0},"title":"Blogathon Update","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Jul-07 12:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, we're up to $200 in pledges here at ***Dave Does the Blogathon.\u00a0 I've polished off a half-dozen trade paperbacks that had been left incomplete, and I'm gathering up...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/25\/blogathon_blogathon_rah_r.html","url_meta":{"origin":11573,"position":1},"title":"Blogathon! 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