a personal page<\/a>. It’s a little corny, but it’s fairly true as these things go.<\/p>\nI’m not a big fan of soliciting people for donations. In fact, for a long time I thought I might not ever get involved with any ride that’s “for” something, because my feeling is, why should my intent to ride be the reason for donating to a good cause? It doesn’t really compute for me. Either the cause is worthwhile of itself or it isn’t; my riding shouldn’t make much difference either way. Nor should donations have to be used to put on an event — the money should go directly to the cause. However, the fact is that events bring in money — they’re done because they work. And from what I can tell, about 80% of the money is not used for event costs, which is a decent ratio.<\/p>\n
So I’ll say it like this: if you feel it’s a good cause, this is your opportunity to donate to it! I and the people who will actually benefit from the money will both appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve registered for WtW now, so there’s no backing out. I’m even on a team, with a friend from the SVBC Peninsula Committee. Anyone else want to join? We’re Team Slowpoke. I decided to actually go ahead and put up a personal page. It’s a little corny, but it’s fairly true as these things go. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,50,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}