{"id":10809,"date":"2014-09-15T11:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2014-09-18T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:30:55","slug":"friendly-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10809","title":{"rendered":"Friendly Reminder (While On Call for Jury Duty)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me (and I hope you&#8217;re not), your inbox is now deluged by little more than candidates and political parties repeatedly begging you &#8212; over and over again &#8212; to give them money so they can add your drop in the bucket to their huge pile of corporate &#8220;donations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We, on the other hand, receive no corporate donations or support from major (or even minor) political parties. We survive <i>only<\/i> thanks to the generous support of readers. And we really <i>do<\/i> work hard to spend our time clearing away the noise and clutter of today&#8217;s &#8220;LOOK AT ME!&#8221; corporate media debacle in our now 10+ year quest to let you know about <i>stuff that actually matters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like your giving, whatever you may have to spare for a good cause, to go someplace where it <i>really<\/i> makes a difference, please consider a contribution to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a>.  Unlike the politicos who <i>pretend<\/i> to give a damn about you and <i>pretend<\/i> to need your $5, $20, $50 or $100 donations, we <i>really<\/i> do need your help &#8212; <i>really<\/i> &#8212; in order to survive through the 2014 mid-terms and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>If you can, I hope you&#8217;ll help. The form below allows you to send support in about 60 seconds time.<\/p>\n[<em>P.S. I am on jury duty this week. Don&#8217;t know whether or not I&#8217;ll be called in each day. But in the worst case scenario, it <\/em>could<em> be quiet here this week because of it.<\/em>]\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/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--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me (and I hope you&#8217;re not), your inbox is now deluged by little more than candidates and political parties repeatedly begging you &#8212; over and over again &#8212; to give them money so they can add your drop in the bucket to their huge pile of corporate &#8220;donations&#8221;. We, on the [&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":[54,26,299,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-brad-blog","category-democrats","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809","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=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}