{"id":14726,"date":"2023-07-19T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T00:36:03","slug":"they-say-its-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14726","title":{"rendered":"They Say It&#8217;s My Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Evidence suggests it&#8217;s my birthday week around here. It&#8217;s like I keep getting older each and every year or something. Some years it seems I get older than in others. But, as Desi likes to say, it beats the alternative. Some years I agree with her more than others&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In any event, given all that&#8217;s going on &#8212; much of which feels like a bit of a birthday gift in and of itself, of late &#8212; I won&#8217;t be taking extra time off to celebrate. But a friendly <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/donate\">donation<\/a>, if you&#8217;re in the mood, to help keep us working (through our 20th year!) is <em>always<\/em> quite welcome.<\/p>\n<p>I am &#8212; and always have been &#8212; terrible at fund raising. Many of you, however, have been generous over the years with a friendly gift around my birthday to help us celebrate. So&#8230;thanks in advance to those who may be in the mood and able to toss a few dollars in the birthday tip jar this year!<\/p>\n<p>As you may have noticed, we&#8217;re doing some detailed, exclusive, investigative reporting these days on the Coffee County Voting System Software Breach in Georgia (Because <i>someone<\/i> has to! See <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14697\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14711\">here<\/a>, for example), and that both takes time <i>and<\/i> costs money. <\/p>\n<p>So, what would <i>really<\/i> make it a great birthday is if I could scare up a few new <em>monthly subscribers<\/em>! You can make a one-time donation or become a monthly subscriber for any amount you can afford via the form on the top-right of this (and every) <a href=\"http:\/\/bradblog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> page!<\/p>\n<p>We could very much use the infusion of fresh support and, frankly, helping me to keep the site free of paywalls for all, <i>forever<\/i>, would be the swellest birthday gift I could ask for!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again in advance for those who can help out! Stay cool (and dry) out there! &#8212; <i>Brad<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Evidence suggests it&#8217;s my birthday week around here. It&#8217;s like I keep getting older each and every year or something. Some years it seems I get older than in others. But, as Desi likes to say, it beats the alternative. Some years I agree with her more than others&#8230;<\/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":[26,675,72],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-bradcast","category-georgia","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","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=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}