{"id":9498,"date":"2014-10-27T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:06","slug":"naming-rights-step-right-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/10\/naming-rights-step-right-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Rights?  Step Right Up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this blog is <em>The 100 Billionth Person.<\/em>\u00a0 But it could be otherwise.\u00a0 You could have your name, or your cause, or your product placement, whatever, at the very top of this very blog.\u00a0 All it takes is your winning bid.\u00a0 If the Asheville Art Museum is desperate enough to sell the naming rights to the sidewalk in front of its entrance for one million dollars, I can be convinced to do something similar &#8212; in the name of art, of course.<\/p>\n<p>So, the bidding starts at a million dollars.\u00a0 Any title is fine, as long it is not disparaging or longer than thirty characters.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;Rush Limbaugh is God, according to the Mean and Bitter People who Listen to Him&#8221; would be disqualified as a title, since it is more than thirty characters long.\u00a0 &#8220;Dick Cheney is Gay for Torture&#8221;\u00a0 is also disqualified, since it is disparaging and insulting to gay people.\u00a0 You get the idea.\u00a0 You may post your bids and your proposed titles for this blog in the comment section.\u00a0 Good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this blog is The 100 Billionth Person.\u00a0 But it could be otherwise.\u00a0 You could have your name, or your cause, or your product placement, whatever, at the very top of this very blog.\u00a0 All it takes is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/10\/naming-rights-step-right-up\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","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=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9592,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}