{"id":758,"date":"2008-10-24T07:12:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:14:36","slug":"extra-extra-read-all-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/10\/extra-extra-read-all-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"EXTRA! EXTRA! &#8230;read all about it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July (<a target=\"Opportunity aka Taking a Chance\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/2008\/07\/26\/opportunity-aka-taking-a-chance\/\" title=\" Opportunity aka Taking a Chance\" rel=\"noopener\"> Opportunity aka Taking a Chance <\/a>), I wrote about 13 year old Owen Ford&#8217;s site <a target=\"H.O.P.E.S.\" href=\"http:\/\/h-o-p-e-s.blogspot.com\/\" title=\" H.O.P.E.S.\" rel=\"noopener\"> H.O.P.E.S. <\/a> which is dedicated to raising money for the World Wildlife Fund.  H.O.P.E.S. stands for Helping Our Planet&#8217;s Endangered Species.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct08\/Hopes4Blog.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"540\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 540px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the start, with the site on a roll and meeting 3 mini-goals of $500 on it&#8217;s way to the main goal of $4000, some glitches with non-profit, PayPal, WWF and ??? forced a pause in the action.  But Owen, with the help of her Mom and friends perservered and all is now well.  The re-Grand Opening is TODAY!  Owen, her mother and friends are making items that are being auctioned on eBay &#8211; animal themed items like the gorgeous tiger themed bookmark that is starting things off today.  Direct donations are acceptable also.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will visit the site and leave a comment of encouragement and support for Owen.  And if you are moved to bid on an item or give a donation &#8211; that would be wonderful also.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct08\/KarlBob450385.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"385\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 385px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl and Bob support the World Wildlife Fund and they hope you might like to do that also.  Go Owen!  <a target=\"H.O.P.E.S.\" href=\"http:\/\/h-o-p-e-s.blogspot.com\/\" title=\" H.O.P.E.S.\" rel=\"noopener\"> H.O.P.E.S. <\/a>  &#8211; just a click away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July ( Opportunity aka Taking a Chance ), I wrote about 13 year old Owen Ford&#8217;s site H.O.P.E.S. which is dedicated to raising money for the World Wildlife Fund. H.O.P.E.S. stands for Helping Our Planet&#8217;s Endangered Species. Shortly after the start, with the site on a roll and meeting 3 mini-goals of $500 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22426,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/22426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}