{"id":10398,"date":"2013-11-28T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2013-11-28T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T21:17:26","slug":"thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Thanks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ThankYou_Pen.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">A very quick note of thanks, on this Thanksgiving weekend, particularly to those of you who have answered <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10376\">the call<\/a> in our recent fund drive. We&#8217;re still figuring out how to survive through our <i>tenth<\/i> anniversary in January (and hopefully well beyond!), but to those of you who have helped get us this far with your contributions, we are incredibly grateful.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still working to figure out how to make our work sustainable without having to ask for your help as we do. Those who know me realize that I <i>really<\/i> hate doing so. Nonetheless, without an angel or three showing up, or even one or two percent of our daily readership <i>signing up for sustaining monthly contributions<\/i> (see below!), I&#8217;ll have to keep asking.<\/p>\n<p>One more idea for now to both help us continue our work <i>and<\/i> help counter the rampant corporatization of everything in our world (which is what, ultimately, makes it so difficult for us to continue our completely <i>independent<\/i> muckraking and trouble-making here): Instead of giving your money to major corporations on &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;, considering sharing some with us <i>instead<\/i>. Or, if you <i>are<\/i> planning to &#8220;save&#8221; money by spending it on &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;, please consider sharing some of your <i>savings<\/i> with us! We&#8217;ll call it &#8220;Brad Friday&#8221;! Either way, we promise to put your contributions to <em>much<\/em> better use than Target, Best Buy or Walmart will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><i>And Happy Thanksgiving, from <u><i>all<\/i><\/u> of us here at The BRAD BLOG&#8230;<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END-->\/table><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very quick note of thanks, on this Thanksgiving weekend, particularly to those of you who have answered the call in our recent fund drive. We&#8217;re still figuring out how to survive through our tenth anniversary in January (and hopefully well beyond!), but to those of you who have helped get us this far with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}