{"id":11995,"date":"2011-12-14T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2011-12-11T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T20:17:42","slug":"kickstarter-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/12\/14\/kickstarter-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3501\/3744799194_862ac7bda1_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3501\/3744799194_862ac7bda1_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3501\/3744799194_862ac7bda1_z.jpg?zz=1\"><\/a>Okay, kids.<\/p>\n<p>Come January, I&#8217;m going to do a <strong>terribleminds<\/strong> Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the logic: I&#8217;m a busy dude. I can never say the blog here is a burden because, truth be told, I love doing it &#8212; but I went ahead and calculated the loose word count I offer to this site annually and it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, around 312,000 words a year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of words. That&#8217;s four or five novels, easy.<\/p>\n<p>This was less of a concern before the Tiny Wendig arrived, as B-Dub is a demanding dictator who forces his parental puppets to dance and dance and dance some more. All for His Tiny Lordship&#8217;s Pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Which means it&#8217;s time to look at this blog and see where it fits in my overall penmonkey ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>So, a Kickstarter. To fund the site by, well, funding my time. At least to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>Which means it&#8217;s time to ask:<\/p>\n<p>What are <em>your<\/em> &#8220;best practices&#8221; when it comes to Kickstarter? What do you like to see? What don&#8217;t you like? If you&#8217;ve backed a project or, even better, had a project on Kickstarter (or any crowd-funded site), I&#8217;d love to hear from you. Care to share what you&#8217;ve learned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come January, I&#8217;m going to do a terribleminds Kickstarter. What are your &#8220;best practices&#8221; when it comes to Kickstarter? What do you like to see? What don&#8217;t you like? If you&#8217;ve backed a project or, even better, had a project on Kickstarter (or any crowd-funded site), I&#8217;d love to hear from you. Care to share what you&#8217;ve learned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-11995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-terribleminds","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-37t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}