{"id":50,"date":"2019-10-29T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2019-10-29T03:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T03:11:15","slug":"my-least-favorite-call-for-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/my-least-favorite-call-for-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"My Least Favorite Call For Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles. I even (briefly and indirectly) worked for them. But I don&#8217;t care for this:<\/p>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:141,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/chla.org\\\/give&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.chla.org\\\/give&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nickel-1.jpg\" alt=\"Children's Hospital donation request with a nickel\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nickel-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nickel-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nickel-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>If I had a nickel for every time I got one of these&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I understand that donations matter and that every nickel counts. I understand that sending money, even a nickel, draws attention to the request. And I also understand that a mailer with a nickel costs at least a nickel more than a mailer without one. Don&#8217;t send me money when you&#8217;re asking me for money. It&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, I have nothing against CHLA. They do good stuff. You should give them money. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/chla.org\/give\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"chla.org\/give (opens in a new tab)\">chla.org\/give<\/a> and throw a few bucks in to help some sick kids. I just did. But tell them Luke doesn&#8217;t want their nickels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;and no fair pointing out that their marketing not only worked on me, but got me to advocate for them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How not to ask for money from me (sort of).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}