{"id":310,"date":"2003-12-11T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=310"},"modified":"2003-12-11T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T20:33:07","slug":"the_giving_seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"The Giving Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is suddenly jumping on the <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.internet.com\/events\/article.php\/3287061\">VoIP<\/a> bandwagon this week.  Time Warner is my cable provider and it looks like I&#8217;ll be able to have access to this service early next year.  Maybe that means I&#8217;ll finally be able to make a telephone call without having to bug someone else to punch the buttons for me.  I&#8217;d pay $50 just for that.  And it would be really cool if I could check my voicemail on-line.<br \/>\nIf any of you are looking for some last-minute charitable deductions, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/mn.vsarts.org\/\">VSA Arts of Minnesota<\/a>.  I serve on their Board of Directors and they are a wonderful organization.  Their primary mission is to bring the arts and access to the arts to people with disabilities.  In my opinion, they&#8217;re one of the best-kept secrets in the Minnesota art scene.  Even a small gift of $10 or $15 would be appreciated.  You can tell them you heard about VSA right here on this blog.<br \/>\nI think tomorrow I&#8217;ll freak out my neighbors and go a-caroling on every damn floor of the building.  I&#8217;ll even take requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is suddenly jumping on the VoIP bandwagon this week. Time Warner is my cable provider and it looks like I&#8217;ll be able to have access to this service early next year. Maybe that means I&#8217;ll finally be able to make a telephone call without having to bug someone else to punch the buttons for <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=310' 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-310","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\/p9Iwau-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}