{"id":498,"date":"2010-07-16T13:18:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-07-16T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:18:52","slug":"a_good_cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/07\/a_good_cause\/","title":{"rendered":"A good cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..from a good colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mcmvanbree\">Marc van Bree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We all know that Nashville got hit with a terrible flood a few months ago. This terrible flood didn&#8217;t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The orchestra&#8217;s damages were approximately $42 million and after insurance and support from FEMA, the remaining financial gap could be as much as $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all contribute our own little bit as a classical music community online. Here&#8217;s my idea: leverage this online network with #floodofsupport<\/p>\n<p>You can read about the specifics I posted today on my blog at http:\/\/mcmvanbree.com\/dutchperspective\/floodofsupport<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>But that&#8217;s not all. I would love your help. Perhaps a small donation, but as importantly, I would love your help in spreading the message. On Twitter, on your blogs, on Facebook and in whatever online crevasses you might find yourself.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>A couple of things:<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>* #floodofsupport runs until August 1, 2010<br \/>* The goal is a modest $1,000 (that&#8217;s $1 for each of my Twitter followers on average)<br \/>* You can set up your own mini-matching grant (I set one up on my blog)<br \/>* I have no connection to the Nashville Symphony. I just felt like doing something<br \/>* Please remember to use the (hash)tag #floodofsupport on your blog and Twitter posts<br \/>* <a href=\"http:\/\/mcmvanbree.com\/dutchperspective\/floodofsupport\">http:\/\/mcmvanbree.com\/dutchperspective\/floodofsupport<\/a> (you&#8217;ll also find some pre-made graphic banners to use)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..from a good colleague, Marc van Bree: We all know that Nashville got hit with a terrible flood a few months ago. This terrible flood didn&#8217;t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The orchestra&#8217;s damages were approximately $42 million and after insurance and support from FEMA, the remaining financial gap could be as much as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}