{"id":11663,"date":"2007-07-23T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/23\/blogathon-the-final-push-for-bucks.html"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T18:23:05","slug":"blogathon_the_final_push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/blogathon_the_final_push.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon &#8211; the Final Push for Bucks!"},"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>Okay, the Blogathon is coming up this Saturday.&nbsp; I&#8217;m getting things ready &#8212; shopping lists of nibbles, making sure I&#8217;m stocked on cola products, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Making a push to get through the comics TPBs I got last Wednesday and a few more that arrived in the mail.&nbsp; I was clever enough to reserve a specific shelf for B&#8217;thon books this year in the newly-revised office, which will be Blogathon Central, so all that material is together. I need to gather together the monthly issues I got over the past month to serve as further review fodder.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, I&#8217;ll try to get plenty of sleep this week.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, what can <em>you <\/em>do?<\/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>Well, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/pledge.php?blogid=150\" target=\"_blank\">sponsor me<\/a>, if you haven&#8217;t already, pledging to contribute to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ERD<\/a>.&nbsp; So far I have $250 in pledges &#8212; I&#8217;d like to at least match last year&#8217;s $481, if possible.&nbsp; Let me know if there&#8217;s something I can do to persuade you of the worthiness of the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Alternately, if either sponsoring me or donating to the ERD is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-pal2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">beyond the pale<\/a> for you, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/list.php?sort=charalph\" target=\"_blank\">a lot of very worthy charities<\/a> out there that folks <em>are <\/em>blogging for &#8212; so far 431 bloggers with nearly $50K pledged.&nbsp; Check them out.<\/p>\n<p>Or, alternately, you can (ahem) blog for a charity of your choice by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/signup.php?action=blogging\" target=\"_blank\">joining the Blogathon as a blogger<\/a>.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/weve_got_the_spirit_how_b.html\" target=\"_blank\">My offer still holds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em> Time is running out!&nbsp; Operators are standing by!&nbsp; Order today!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the Blogathon is coming up this Saturday.&nbsp; I&#8217;m getting things ready &#8212; shopping lists of nibbles, making sure I&#8217;m stocked on cola products, etc.&nbsp; Making a push to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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-11663","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":10755,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/05\/blogathon_blogathon_bloga.html","url_meta":{"origin":11663,"position":0},"title":"Blogathon.  Blogathon!  Blogathon?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jul-07 10:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, not sure why I didn't get any notification of the Blogathon this year -- but I saw the announcement on Steve's page,\u00a0 Saturday, 28 July. Hmmmm. I've been...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/blogathon2007.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12516,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/adding_one_more_thing_to.html","url_meta":{"origin":11663,"position":1},"title":"Adding one more thing to our summer calendar","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Apr-08 7:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like this year's Blogathon will be on Saturday, 26 July. 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