{"id":1488,"date":"2008-01-15T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2008-01-15T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T04:25:00","slug":"pardon-my-french-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Pardon my French, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=43613&#038;challengeid=17863&#038;zone=0\" target=\"blank\">HOLY CRAP.<\/a>  It&#8217;s a post-Christmas miracle!  This is the proposal from my kid&#8217;s music teacher.  She was asking for enough xylophones for her music room for all the students to use in a given class period.  The Browncoats and friends raised about $800 smackers for that proposal, out of a needed $4000+.  I genuinely thought there was absolutely no way the proposal would be funded.  But there it sits, only $95 short of its goal with only nine days left to go.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT HAPPENED?  Did Bill Gates take up the marimba?  Did the ghost of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lionel_Hampton\" target=\"blank\">Lionel Hampton<\/a> smile down upon Charlotte?  Did some eccentric billionaire watch Em&#8217;s production of the Music Man and remember the school in his will?<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea&#8230; but wow.  Just wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLY CRAP. It&#8217;s a post-Christmas miracle! This is the proposal from my kid&#8217;s music teacher. She was asking for enough xylophones for her music room for all the students to use in a given class period. The Browncoats and friends raised about $800 smackers for that proposal, out of a needed $4000+. I genuinely thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}