{"id":9464,"date":"2012-10-25T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8944"},"modified":"2012-10-25T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:32:15","slug":"donorschoose-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/donorschoose-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"DonorsChoose 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/\">DonorsChoose<\/a> is a great program that lets people give small (or large, if that&#8217;s how they roll) charitable donations targeted at specific classrooms and educational programs around the country. We have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/10\/20\/donors-choose-2011\/\">participated<\/a> frequently in the past, but this year we didn&#8217;t quite get our act together. But it doesn&#8217;t matter who sets up the donors page, there are many great programs out there looking for support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2012\/06\/25\/3-quarks-daily-2012-science-prize-the-winners\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2012\/10\/donorschoose.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"40\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8946\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So instead, this year we&#8217;re pointing people to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=263622&amp;max=25\">Aatish Bhatia&#8217;s donor page<\/a>. You might remember Aatish as the winner of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2012\/06\/25\/3-quarks-daily-2012-science-prize-the-winners\/\">3 Quarks Daily blogging prize<\/a>.  Now he&#8217;s assembled a collection of worthy science education projects. Go throw a few bucks and feel good about yourself and the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DonorsChoose is a great program that lets people give small (or large, if that&#8217;s how they roll) charitable donations targeted at specific classrooms and educational programs around the country. We have participated frequently in the past, but this year we didn&#8217;t quite get our act together. But it doesn&#8217;t matter who sets up the donors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}