{"id":165,"date":"2008-09-08T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/shiny-1000-goal\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:19:53","slug":"shiny-1000-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/shiny-1000-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiny $1000 goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started out my Waves to Wine fundraising nervous, thinking I would probably barely meet the minimum $350 since I didn&#8217;t plan to be at all aggressive about it. I&#8217;ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the people I&#8217;ve spoken to about it. Some of you are my family and close friends, some of you are work colleagues and new friends, some of you are people I hardly know, and all of you are generous beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve upped my fundraising goal several times as I collected donations, finally setting it at $1000 a few weeks ago. Today I reached that goal. Thank you to everyone who has supported me. As the day approaches, I&#8217;m getting nervous, knowing that from here on all I can do is maintain, recharge, and hope my training has been adequate, and it&#8217;s a great comfort and inspiration to know that so many people are thinking of me.<\/p>\n<p>If you were thinking of donating to me, but hadn&#8217;t got around to it yet, well, I&#8217;ve well-exceeded my original hopes: may I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/main.nationalmssociety.org\/site\/TR\/Bike\/CANBikeEvents?team_id=126271&#038;pg=team&#038;fr_id=9066\">one of my terrific teammates<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started out my Waves to Wine fundraising nervous, thinking I would probably barely meet the minimum $350 since I didn&#8217;t plan to be at all aggressive about it. I&#8217;ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the people I&#8217;ve spoken to about it. Some of you are my family and close friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}