{"id":16104,"date":"2016-12-23T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T23:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16104"},"modified":"2016-12-23T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T23:51:13","slug":"a-cash-free-society-previewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/a-cash-free-society-previewed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cash-Free Society, Previewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozarksfirst.com\/news\/red-kettle-campaign-about-175000-short-of-goal\/630808398\" target=\"_new\">Red Kettle Campaign About $175,000 Short of Goal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Salvation Army is running short on it&#8217;s <em>[sic]<\/em> goal to raise money for its year-round programs in the Springfield area.<\/p>\n<p>Red Kettle co-chairs Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams and Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott said with just a few hours left in the Tree of Lights campaign,<br \/>\nthe project is $178,000 behind on its goal of $800,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve given all the change in my pocket whenever I&#8217;ve passed a bell-ringer.  I guess that holds true now, but I don&#8217;t have any change in my pocket most of the time because I&#8217;m paying with a credit card for everything these days.<\/p>\n<p>Charities like this that depend on micro-donations and impulse coin drops (generally in the ubiquitous vortex collection devices) suffer.  If a society goes cashless, a lot of places that get cash donations, like churches, will run into funding problems, too.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re depending on the government to handle all of the nation&#8217;s helpless and homeless, this won&#8217;t be a problem at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Kettle Campaign About $175,000 Short of Goal: The Salvation Army is running short on it&#8217;s [sic] goal to raise money for its year-round programs in the Springfield area. Red Kettle co-chairs Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams and Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott said with just a few hours left in the Tree of Lights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16107,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions\/16107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}