{"id":13068,"date":"2019-07-19T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2019-07-22T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:21:37","slug":"it-beats-the-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13068","title":{"rendered":"It Beats the Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\/Images\/SadBirthdayDoodle.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s my birthday today. I&#8217;m working anyway. No matter how much older I feel this year than last. Not happy about it any of it, of course. But, as Desi always tells me&#8230;.(See headline.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, ya&#8217;ll have been very generous in previous years come birthday time. So I hope you don&#8217;t mind if I ask again this year. Please feel free to cheer me up this weekend with some <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/donate\"><strong>birthday love support<\/strong><\/a> for your friendly neighborhood BRAD BLOG, <i>BradCast<\/i> and <i>Green News Report<\/i>. We very much need (and appreciate!) your help. And it&#8217;s my birthday after all. So&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>My birthday wish? For just 5 of you to sign up for a <em>monthly sustaining subscription<\/em> of any amount you can afford.  Thank you <i>much<\/i> in advance for <em>anything<\/em> you can spare to help us keep fighting forward during these dark days.&#8211; <i>Brad<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my birthday today. I&#8217;m working anyway. No matter how much older I feel this year than last. Not happy about it any of it, of course. But, as Desi always tells me&#8230;.(See headline.) On the other hand, ya&#8217;ll have been very generous in previous years come birthday time. So I hope you don&#8217;t mind [&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-13068","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\/13068","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=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}