{"id":1980,"date":"2009-07-29T19:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2009-07-29T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:49:52","slug":"blogathon-2009-the-good-the-bad-and-the-different-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 2009: The Good, the Bad, and the Different for Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; this is the redux of my Blogathon 2009 experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good<\/strong><br \/>\n-participating this year even though I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be able to.<br \/>\n-doing as well as I did fundraising &#8212; I count my number of sponsors as evidence of that.<br \/>\n-getting to be the charity liaison for the event.<br \/>\n-having a laptop that did not overheat and go out during the event.<br \/>\n-making it through though I&#8217;d had less than 4 hours of sleep over 48 hours by the time all was said and done.<br \/>\n-not having to dance the Timewarp on crutches this year<br \/>\n-watching people mortify themselves in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/?p=1404\">Blogathon Karaoke Challenge<\/a><br \/>\n-Drew &amp; Sam&#8217;s visit<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad<\/strong><br \/>\n-being so out of it that I couldn&#8217;t walk straight or type coherently by the time all was said and done.<br \/>\n-the stifling heat of my study<br \/>\n-the difficulty in re-telling my story because it&#8217;s still painful<br \/>\n-my camera went dead early on so nothing exciting from me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/blogathon\/pool\/\">Blogathon photostream<\/a> after awhile<br \/>\n-did not get through the projects I planned<\/p>\n<p><strong>Different for Next Year<\/strong><br \/>\n-have wifi in the parsonage so I can change rooms to blog<br \/>\n-different charity (I change yearly)<br \/>\n-more drinking of water and less caffeine<br \/>\n-plan healthier snacks<\/p>\n<p>You can pledge me until Friday by clicking on all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/pledge.php?blogid=96\">sponsor me<\/a> links.  I&#8217;ll probably close out comments on entries next week so that I don&#8217;t have a year of spam sitting in my Blogathon email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; this is the redux of my Blogathon 2009 experience. Good -participating this year even though I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be able to. -doing as well as I did fundraising &#8212; I count my number of sponsors as evidence of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1980\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,25,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-health","category-media","category-web-schtuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-vW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}