{"id":231,"date":"2006-12-06T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/231\/childs-play-day"},"modified":"2007-06-22T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T17:30:47","slug":"childs-play-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/231\/childs-play-day","title":{"rendered":"Child&#8217;s Play Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikezornek.com\/2006\/12\/06\/childs-play-day\/\">Mike Zornek<\/a> had a brilliant idea for a way that independent software vendors could show a little holiday spirit this year. He&#8217;s put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/ironcoder.org\/blog\/childs-play-day\/\">loose-knit collection<\/a> of companies whose profits from sales tomorrow will be donated 100% to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childsplaycharity.org\/\">Child&#8217;s Play Charity<\/a>, which helps hospitals buy toys, books, and other entertainment for the kids under their care. <\/p>\n<p>\nI love this charity idea because it gives small developers a chance to unite for a good cause, and because that cause is pretty universal and apolitical. Who doesn&#8217;t want sick kids to be as happy as possible?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m putting my products <a href=\"http:\/\/ironcoder.org\/blog\/childs-play-day\/\">into the pool<\/a>, so if you had any intention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/store\/\">buying them<\/a>, do it <em>tomorrow<\/em>, December 7th, 2006. I appreciate that picking a 24 hour period and calling it &#8220;a day&#8221; can be tough to clarify internationally. So I&#8217;m interpreting it a little loosely and starting the &#8220;sale&#8221; right now. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/store\/\">online store<\/a> includes a note explaining that the charity sales are in place, and I&#8217;ll take that notice down sometime after midnight tomorrow. While that notice is in effect you are guaranteed that 100% of your payments will go to the charity (i&#8217;m donating the difference in any PayPal or Kagi fees, so the total contribution will be exactly the cost of the product).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are lots of other great companies participating, so if you&#8217;ve been considering <em>any<\/em> of the products <a href=\"http:\/\/ironcoder.org\/blog\/childs-play-day\/\">on the list<\/a>, tomorrow would be a great time to make the purchase!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Zornek had a brilliant idea for a way that independent software vendors could show a little holiday spirit this year. He&#8217;s put together a loose-knit collection of companies whose profits from sales tomorrow will be donated 100% to the Child&#8217;s Play Charity, which helps hospitals buy toys, books, and other entertainment for the kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-sweater-news","category-uncategorized","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}