{"id":185,"date":"2008-05-13T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/13\/potentially-horribly-inappropriate-blog-post\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T22:34:00","slug":"potentially-horribly-inappropriate-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/13\/potentially-horribly-inappropriate-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Potentially horribly inappropriate blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen this done before on any of the blogs I read, so apologies if this is a big faux pas!<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/ennis\/2008\/04\/21\/feeding-the-hand-that-feeds-you\">said<\/a> that I don&#8217;t usually try to raise money for the charity that pays my salary, but hey, you don&#8217;t get to have your <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/omg.html\">photo<\/a> taken with sexy hockey players without giving something back. So I signed up to take part in a 36 km sponsored bike ride on June 1st.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at all interested in sponsoring me (and I understand completely if you&#8217;re not &#8211; this is a regional foundation after all!), you can view my personal page and donate at <a href=\"http:\/\/donate.bccancerfoundation.com\/site\/TR\/Events\/WestsideClassic?px=1162381&amp;pg=personal&amp;fr_id=1370&amp;et=GFhojTbE848_n2ZJYXslBQ..&amp;s_tafId=2241\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can personally <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/my-idealistic-inner-teenager-is-proud.html\">vouch<\/a> for the quality of the research that this event will fund. This is my second time working here, and I love the feeling that what I do makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance, and don&#8217;t be shy at letting me know if you think this is inappropriate! There&#8217;s a similar event in August (for the MS Society), and the response to this post will determine whether I ever try it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen this done before on any of the blogs I read, so apologies if this is a big faux pas! I know I&#8217;ve said that I don&#8217;t usually try to raise money for the charity that pays my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/13\/potentially-horribly-inappropriate-blog-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fund-raising","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}