{"id":213,"date":"2010-12-10T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=213"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:25","slug":"a-personal-appeal-from-the-creative-director-of-chcollins-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2010\/12\/a-personal-appeal-from-the-creative-director-of-chcollins-com\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Appeal from the Creative Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Craig Collins, the Creative Director of The 100 Billionth Person website.\u00a0 It is only the mildest form of pandering to say, this blog wouldn&#8217;t exist without you.\u00a0  Well, maybe it would, but if you aren&#8217;t reading it, can you be sure it&#8217;s still there?  Anyway, the topic here is <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/WMFSG001D\/en\/US?utm_medium=sitenotice&amp;utm_campaign=20101211SA009&amp;utm_source=20101210_SA004A_US&amp;country_code=US\">money<\/a> and my goal is $16 million &#8212; that&#8217;s right, $16 million to continue delivering, to the doorstep of your laptop, my interpretation of life on this planet, where &#8220;planet&#8221; means a 10-mile radius from wherever I happen to be.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you want to continue experiencing the same pleasure you now get from sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/the816.com\/fun\/personal-appeal\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>, Facebook and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawshankredemption.org\/\">The Shawshank Redemption<\/a> &#8212; in short, if you want life to have meaning &#8212; why not send your generous contribution today.\u00a0 In the next 15 minutes.\u00a0 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Craig Collins, the Creative Director of The 100 Billionth Person website.\u00a0 It is only the mildest form of pandering to say, this blog wouldn&#8217;t exist without you.\u00a0 Well, maybe it would, but if you aren&#8217;t reading it, can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2010\/12\/a-personal-appeal-from-the-creative-director-of-chcollins-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}