{"id":1506,"date":"2008-11-30T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/11\/30\/cash-rules-everything-around-me\/"},"modified":"2008-11-30T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T19:46:21","slug":"cash-rules-everything-around-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/11\/30\/cash-rules-everything-around-me\/","title":{"rendered":"cash rules everything around me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m soliciting funds again.\u00c2\u00a0 This time, to support a project that I work closely with called the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project (<a href=\"http:\/\/pagestoprisoners.org\">http:\/\/pagestoprisoners.org<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0 We send free reading material to people incarcerated in juvenile facilities, prisons, and jails throughout the Midwest, Florida, and Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 Our primary means of support is\u00c2\u00a0 through the donation of books and money to cover buying books and the ever-rising cost of postage.\u00c2\u00a0 To put things in perspective, it costs between $3-7 to send one package of free books to an incarcerated person.\u00c2\u00a0 With each biweekly mailing, we send 100-200 packages, so the expenses grow quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 Though this might seem like a costly and not-so-efficient way to get reading material to people, it is often the only access to information, ideas, and mental stimulation that many incarcerated people have.\u00c2\u00a0 This Saturday, I will be bowling in a Bowl-A-Thon fundraiser and I would appreciate your sponsorship.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read more about the event at <a href=\"http:\/\/pagestoprisoners.org\/bowl-a-thon\">http:\/\/pagestoprisoners.org\/bowl-a-thon<\/a> and donate via PayPal by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=1545159\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=1545159<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your support,<br \/>\nGeoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m soliciting funds again.\u00c2\u00a0 This time, to support a project that I work closely with called the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project (http:\/\/pagestoprisoners.org)\u00c2\u00a0 We send free reading material to people incarcerated in juvenile facilities, prisons, and jails throughout the Midwest, Florida, and Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 Our primary means of support is\u00c2\u00a0 through the donation of books and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/11\/30\/cash-rules-everything-around-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">cash rules everything around me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[644,57],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-money","tag-pages","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-oi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}