{"id":12835,"date":"2018-12-21T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2019-01-06T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:56:57","slug":"happy-holidays-and-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12835","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays and Hopes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WhiteHouseRepair.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It has been an exhausting year. Both Desi and I are desperate for a much-needed mental and physical health break (and to say hello to our families, if we can remember their names) before whatever fresh\/continuing hell awaits in the new year.  So, I just wanted to post a quick note of thanks to those of you who have <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\"><b>helped support our efforts<\/b><\/a> over this past difficult year (and the 15 or so before them!) here at The BRAD BLOG!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Desi and I will be taking some <i>much<\/i> needed downtime (or trying to) for a week or two over the holidays. The very wise Angie Coiro of <a href=\"http:\/\/InDeepRadio.com\"><i>In Deep Radio<\/i><\/a> will be sitting in for us on <i>The BradCast<\/i> (wish her luck!) along with a few &#8220;Best Ofs&#8221; here and there for the duration.<\/p>\n<p>If you can take a moment <i>right now<\/i> to stop by <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\"><b>BradBlog.com\/Donate<\/b><\/a> for an end (or beginning) of the year contribution, it would be <i>greatly<\/i> appreciated to help defray some of our growing expenses as we approach our <i>15th anniversary<\/i> of investigative blogging, journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking!<\/p>\n<p>I continue to be proud to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/donation\"><strong>YOUR SUPPORT<\/strong><\/a> is still the <i>only<\/i> thing that keeps us going here!  We have no corporate or political sponsors. Just <i>you<\/i>! So <i>thank you<\/i> for whatever you can afford to share to help our fiercely independent work continue into the new year! (Monthly subscriptions of any amount you like are <i>particularly<\/i> appreciated, but we welcome your support of any kind! It takes just about 60 seconds via the link above!)<\/p>\n<p>I will leave this item pinned on top for the duration, so please <b>scroll down<\/b> to catch the latest <i>BradCasts<\/i> and whatever other trouble-making and muckraking awaits over the next week or two.  From all of us to all of you, happy holidays my best wishes for a safe, happy and <i>peaceful<\/i> new year!  &#8212; <i>Brad (and Desi and Ernie and Pdiddie and Angie et al by proxy!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been an exhausting year. Both Desi and I are desperate for a much-needed mental and physical health break (and to say hello to our families, if we can remember their names) before whatever fresh\/continuing hell awaits in the new year. So, I just wanted to post a quick note of thanks to those [&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-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835","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=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}