{"id":1416,"date":"2009-05-28T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2009-05-29T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:08:18","slug":"be-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Be the change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.epicchange.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epicchange.org\/\">Epic Change<\/a>, a charity I was introduced to via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/numindan\">Twitter<\/a>, is a finalist in a contest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideablob.com\/ideas\/1770-EPIC-CHANGE-Make-Loans-Tell-\">Ideablob<\/a>. Epic Change strives to build classrooms and foster learning in Tanzania. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StaceyMonk\">Stacey Monk<\/a>, founder of Epic Change, has written a blog post about the <em>fairness<\/em> of Internet based voting for fundraising, calling attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/epicchange.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/26\/tanzania-votes-the-hard-way\/\">how students voted from Tanzania<\/a> in a recent blog post. However, despite any concerns about digital divides in the current method of deciding a contest winner, it&#8217;s still a great cause worthy of support.\u00a0 Take a few seconds out of your day and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideablob.com\/ideas\/1770-EPIC-CHANGE-Make-Loans-Tell-\">vote<\/a> for Epic Change on Ideablob.<\/p>\n<p>UPPERDATE: Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change, asked that I include the following in the post:<\/p>\n<p><em>This blog post is part of Zemanta&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/bloggingforacause\/\">Blogging For a Cause<\/a> <em>campaign to raise awareness and funds for worthy causes that bloggers care about<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Change, a charity I was introduced to via Twitter, is a finalist in a contest at Ideablob. Epic Change strives to build classrooms and foster learning in Tanzania. Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change, has written a blog post about the fairness of Internet based voting for fundraising, calling attention to how students voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,153],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-epic-change","tag-ideablob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}