{"id":9266,"date":"2006-07-30T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/30\/bt06-when-ends-the-blogathon.html"},"modified":"2006-07-30T06:37:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T13:37:02","slug":"bt06_when_ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/bt06_when_ends.html","title":{"rendered":"BT06 – When Ends the Blogathon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the Blogathon had 219 participants, with 1,777 sponsors pledging over $55,000. This year, 285 participants for total pledges of $96,887.68.  That’s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Last year, I had seven fine sponsors, pledging $241.  This year I have 12, pledging $457.  Again with the Wow. <\/p>\n

(Sponsors, you’ll be getting an e-mail or two from the Blogathon with a message from me and the link to the EFF’s Support page.  There’s all sorts of ways you can do support stuff there, including a form you can download for using snail-mail if your of that sort of inclination.) <\/small><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd now the Thank Yous. <\/p>\n

Thanks to the Blogathon crew<\/strong>, including my monitor, Elegy<\/strong>.  This couldn’t happen without all the volunteer time all y’all put in.  It is appreciated. <\/p>\n

Thanks to my commenters:  the Mother-in-Law, Steve, Elegy, Kelson, Avocet, Mary, Mal, Margie, DOF, Kate, Travis, Mrs. SEB.<\/strong>  Getting feedback is critical, and it helps, awfully much. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Les<\/strong>, who put up with my Google Talk chatter.  Having that connection at 2 in the morning helped me, and I hope it helped in return. <\/p>\n

Thanks to my Sponsors.  You guys make this pay off, literally.  I believe that all of the following names were okay to disclose, and, if not, I apologize:  Stephen, Mom, De, Lee, Margie, Mary, Amanda, the Mother-in-Law, and Randy<\/strong>.  Plus three anonymous sponsors in there.  $457 to a very worthy cause, people. You’ve done a little bit to support me, and, bread upon the waters, I trust it will come back to you in myriad ways. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Katherine<\/strong> for being patient with Daddy being a bit cranky and a lot unavailable. <\/p>\n

As always, biggest thanks to Margie<\/strong>.  She was immediately supportive of my doing this, took care of all the logistics around me regarding it, and was an overall doll.  I love you, honey. <\/p>\n

And with that, I believe I am within the rules<\/a> to count this as my final half-hour post, and to say good morning, and good night.  The posts should be all below here for your Sunday perusal.  I’ll be out of commission until early-mid afternoon.  <\/p>\n

See you in the funny papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, the Blogathon had 219 participants, with 1,777 sponsors pledging over $55,000. This year, 285 participants for total pledges of $96,887.68.  That’s pretty cool. Last year, I had seven fine sponsors,…<\/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-9266","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":7810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05_and_there.html","url_meta":{"origin":9266,"position":0},"title":"BT05 – And There Shall Come … an Ending!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Aug-05 7:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaaand ... that's a wrap. So the Blogathon had (as of this writing) 219 participants, with 1,777 sponsor pledging over $55,000. Wow. My own share of that is seven fine...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7873,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/blogathon_updat.html","url_meta":{"origin":9266,"position":1},"title":"Blogathon update: Tuesday","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Aug-05 8:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, thanks much to the four sponsors I have so far. $143 isn't a bad gig. However ... We can do better. Or, at least, we did in 2003....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/will_i_survive.html","url_meta":{"origin":9266,"position":2},"title":"Will I survive the Blogathon?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-06 11:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"You have a 60% chance of surviving the Blogathon! Will you survive the Blogathon? Oh, a challenge, eh?\u00a0 Hmmmmm ... Well, I have to survive!\u00a0 After all, I've pulled...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11690,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/blogathon_update_9.html","url_meta":{"origin":9266,"position":3},"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 "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9294,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/bt06_and_now_fo.html","url_meta":{"origin":9266,"position":4},"title":"BT06 – And now for a word to our sponsors","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jul-06 7:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to those 11 people out there who have pledged $427 to the EFF based on my efforts here.\u00a0 It's appreciated on multiple levels.\u00a0 Those who are still...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11663,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/blogathon_the_final_push.html","url_meta":{"origin":9266,"position":5},"title":"Blogathon – the Final Push for Bucks!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Jul-07 11:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, the Blogathon is coming up this Saturday.\u00a0 I'm getting things ready -- shopping lists of nibbles, making sure I'm stocked on cola products, etc.\u00a0 Making a push to...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}