{"id":1353,"date":"2002-09-30T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magnetbox.com\/index.php\/2002\/09\/30\/82321512\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T21:22:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T02:22:58","slug":"82321512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/30\/82321512\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool together money and resources in order to meet someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random idea: Create an off-shoot of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\">meetup<\/a> where a collective of interested people and organizations pool together money and resources in the attempt to meet a pre-determined person, such as a celebrity, comic, or speaker. (For example: A web or publishing crowd who wants to meet with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/index.html\">David Weinberger<\/a> or <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> in Des Moines, IA. His known &#8220;going rate&#8221; for an appearance might be something like $2000, in order to cover expenses and be &#8220;worth it&#8221;. Individuals interested in hearing him speak, as well as local organizations and chapters who might pitch in larger sums, donate to a pool in the hopes of &#8220;hiring&#8221; him. The interested party could approve of the meet at any point in the running tally, or wait until the amount reaches a certain dollar amount.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random idea: Create an off-shoot of meetup where a collective of interested people and organizations pool together money and resources in the attempt to meet a pre-determined person, such as a celebrity, comic, or speaker. (For example: A web or publishing crowd who wants to meet with David Weinberger or Cory Doctorow in Des Moines, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/30\/82321512\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pool together money and resources in order to meet someone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bentesch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}