{"id":360,"date":"2002-08-03T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2002-08-03T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/08\/03\/putting_money_where_my_mouth_is.html"},"modified":"2002-08-03T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2002-08-03T17:42:14","slug":"putting_money_where_my_mouth_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/08\/03\/putting_money_where_my_mouth_is.html","title":{"rendered":"putting money where my mouth is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On various listservs and blogs, i keep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/18899\">seeing more and more discussions<\/a> about the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-et-rave3aug03.story\">RAVE Act<\/a>.  Of course, everyone always suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/ga1.org\/campaign\/rave\/\">writing to your congressman<\/a>, and i can respect that and even encourage it.  But i wished i believed that it did a damn thing.  I don&#8217;t trust my voice nor do i feel like those messages are ever even heard from folks like me.  I have more faith in large lobby groups and other organizations working to help people.  Thus, rather than writing another pointless letter, i decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancesafe.org\/support\/\">donate money<\/a> to help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancesafe.org\">Dancesafe<\/a> because i really do believe in their mission and their fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On various listservs and blogs, i keep seeing more and more discussions about the proposed RAVE Act. Of course, everyone always suggests writing to your congressman, and i can respect that and even encourage it. But i wished i believed that it did a damn thing. I don&#8217;t trust my voice nor do i feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altered-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}