{"id":4195,"date":"2008-01-15T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2017-11-03T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:34:23","slug":"putting-my-money-where-my-blog-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/putting-my-money-where-my-blog-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting My Money Where My Blog Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can tell by my sidebar, gentle reader, I support Fred Thompson&#8217;s bid for the presidency and probably will far after he&#8217;s either elected or withdrawn&#8211;I don&#8217;t update the sidebar much these days.<\/p>\n<p>However, today I sent a check to the campaign for the first time, putting my money where my blog is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first money I&#8217;ve sent since 2000, when I backed a candidate who was not nominated.  I haven&#8217;t sent much to the Republican Party or its committees in recent years, no matter how much of a gold-card member they would like me to be.  But I&#8217;ve sent money to Fred, and if\/when I can scrape up any more extraneous cash, I will send more.<\/p>\n<p>You can, too, using the sidebar or going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fred08.com\/Contribute.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Contribute page<\/a> which has a credit card form and a poor PDF for mailing checks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgehee.cc\/index.php\/zone\/comments\/i_declare1\/\" target=\"_blank\">this cross-dressing Klingon<\/a>, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>But let it be known my support has its threshold: I won&#8217;t work the phone banks for Fred or any campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can tell by my sidebar, gentle reader, I support Fred Thompson&#8217;s bid for the presidency and probably will far after he&#8217;s either elected or withdrawn&#8211;I don&#8217;t update the sidebar much these days. However, today I sent a check to the campaign for the first time, putting my money where my blog is. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","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=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17227,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions\/17227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}