{"id":1784,"date":"2005-08-15T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T05:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/15\/help-send-sarah-in-chicago-to-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T22:34:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T05:34:02","slug":"help-send-sarah-in-chicago-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Help Send Sarah in Chicago to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

From BitchPhD<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In comments <\/a>to the crumpet post, frequent commenter Sarah in Chicago<\/a> let on that (1) she’s homesick for New Zealand; (2) she hasn’t been home in 4 years; (3) her sister’s getting married next month; (4) she can’t afford a plane ticket.<\/p>\n

So I thought. Hm. What if we did a blog fundraiser to see if we can buy Sarah a ticket back to New Zealand for her sister’s wedding? This blog gets about 5,000 readers\/day. I did some googling and found a round-trip ticket from LA to New Zealand for under $800 (if purchased by Friday), and another round-trip from Chicago to New Zealand for a little over $1300.<\/p>\n

I bet we can do it. If you can help Sarah get home for her sister’s wedding, even if only with a couple of bucks, please click on that paypal “donation” button over in the near right sidebar. Everything I get I’ll forward to Sarah (who I’m actually going to meet this weekend). Sarah says that if, in the end, we can’t raise enough to buy her a ticket, she’ll donate it to Planned Parenthood. But I’m sure we can do it. What do you guys say?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sarah is also one of my favorite comment-writers here at “Alas,” and letting her see her long-lost sister seems like a worthy cause. So let me encourage y’all to go throw a buck or two into the “make a donation” button at BitchPhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From BitchPhD: In comments to the crumpet post, frequent commenter Sarah in Chicago let on that (1) she’s homesick for New Zealand; (2) she hasn’t been home in 4 years; (3) her sister’s getting married next month; (4) she can’t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}