{"id":6557,"date":"2011-11-30T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2011-11-30T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:30:01","slug":"last-day-for-desert-stars-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/last-day-for-desert-stars-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day for Desert Stars campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/807721593\/desert-stars-a-novel-of-gaia-nova\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6420\" title=\"ds-kickstarter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-140x104.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>So today is the last day for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/807721593\/desert-stars-a-novel-of-gaia-nova\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Desert Stars<\/strong>\u00a0kickstarter campaign<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got a little under half the funds raised so far, but if I don&#8217;t reach the target goal by the end of the day, the project doesn&#8217;t get funded (at least, not through kickstarter).<\/p>\n<p>All I need is about 35 people donating $10 each, or 14 donating at $25, so if you&#8217;ve been meaning to pledge but just haven&#8217;t gotten around to it, I&#8217;d appreciate it if you could take the time to do it. \u00a0Worst case scenario, the project doesn&#8217;t get funded, and you don&#8217;t pay anything.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently traveling across the country by train, so I won&#8217;t be back online until Friday when I arrive in Utah. \u00a0Right now, I&#8217;m in Chicago, getting ready to board the California Zephyr; internet is a little spotty at Union Station, but I&#8217;ve found a corner where I can check up on things.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving was great; I <a href=\"http:\/\/onelowerlight.com\/travel\/?p=238\" target=\"_blank\">blogged about it<\/a> on the travel blog. \u00a0It was good to spend some time with my parents and visit with family. \u00a0Christmas is going to be great, not only because all my sisters and their families will be there, but because we&#8217;ll be in Texas where the weather is a bit milder. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to it!<\/p>\n<p>As for the kickstarter campaign, whether or not it works out, I&#8217;ll definitely blog about it in the next couple of days. \u00a0Even if it doesn&#8217;t get funded, I&#8217;ve learned a lot from the experience, and I&#8217;m sure my fellow writers will be interested to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p>So keep in touch, and I&#8217;ll be back on Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today is the last day for the Desert Stars\u00a0kickstarter campaign. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got a little under half the funds raised so far, but if I don&#8217;t reach the target goal by the end of the day, the project doesn&#8217;t get funded (at least, not through kickstarter). All I need is about 35 people donating $10&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/last-day-for-desert-stars-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last day for Desert Stars campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,639],"class_list":["post-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-kickstarter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1HL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}