{"id":4419,"date":"2013-02-12T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T20:47:44","slug":"crowd-funding-even-your-personal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/crowd-funding-even-your-personal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd Funding Even Your Personal Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While nowadays I am used to hearing people going to crowd funding as a source to get funding for their business or projects the notion of people using it for their personal lives is a bit more foreighn to me.  While watching the news today a story came up about a couple who was trying to have a baby through In-Vitro Fertilization where it is obviously expensive an so they went to a site called gofundme to try and raise money for it.  You can see their posting here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/icanhazfamily\">http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/icanhazfamily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It made me think too where if they can get this successful why wouldn&#8217;t more people try to do it for things like a student trying to get money for school or asking people to help pay for a wedding?  The first reaction I heard was that no one wants to look like a beggar and so this usually turns people off of the idea.  At the same time I would say this is one of those you don&#8217;t know if you don&#8217;t try situation.  I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised too where if someone asked for help to buy them a bag of potato chips that it&#8217;s not too far fetched that there is someone out there who would be willing to do it.  At the end of the day it&#8217;s just another way to potentially get money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While nowadays I am used to hearing people going to crowd funding as a source to get funding for their business or projects the notion of people using it for their personal lives is a bit more foreighn to me. While watching the news today a story came up about a couple who was trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[4107,104,21,147],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-crowd-funding","tag-investing","tag-money","tag-personal-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-19h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4420,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}