{"id":136,"date":"2003-07-10T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=136"},"modified":"2003-07-10T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T18:54:08","slug":"24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/\">2003 Blogathon<\/a> on July 26-27.  The Blogathon is similar to the old bowling-for-charity concept.  I would make a blog entry roughly every 30 minutes.  Sponsors would agree to donate money to my chosen charity.  I would probably do it for either a disability or legal rights charity.  I think I could make it&#8230;only the last 4 or 5 hours would be rough.  Maybe I could get some people to come over or call me to keep me awake.  What do y&#8217;all think?  Would you pony up some money to see me go without sleep for 24 hours?  Maybe I could hook up a webcam so you can watch me turn into a zombie.<br \/>\nGot my Minnesota ID card in the mail.  I look like such a dork.  I have this blank, wide-eyed expression that makes one think I&#8217;m stoned out of my gourd.  I&#8217;d post the picture, but it&#8217;s just too painful to look at.<br \/>\nA white ago I posted about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/archives\/000100.html\">boy who was breeding insects in his body<\/a>.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/030624\/43\/25eim.html\">the poor kid is still suffering<\/a>.  The very thought of flies taking off from inside&#8230;down there&#8230;just seems too painful to imagine.<br \/>\nSusan Smith, the woman who drove her kids into a lake and then blamed it on an African-American carjacker, has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/susansmithad1.html\">personal ad on the Internet<\/a>.  Ten bucks says she gets at least a dozen marriage proposals in the first week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><strong>[Listening to: Across The Universe &#8211; Fiona Apple &#8211; Pleasantville Soundtrack (5:05)]<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about participating in the 2003 Blogathon on July 26-27. The Blogathon is similar to the old bowling-for-charity concept. I would make a blog entry roughly every 30 minutes. Sponsors would agree to donate money to my chosen charity. I would probably do it for either a disability or legal rights charity. I think <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=136' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-24","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}