{"id":5788,"date":"2014-07-05T22:15:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2014-07-06T03:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T11:16:53","slug":"crowd-funding-can-be-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/crowd-funding-can-be-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd Funding Can Be Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was just kind of odd as I stumbled upon this crowd funding project on Kickstarter as you can see here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/324283889\/potato-salad<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, unless I am missing something it is literally just a person saying that they are going to make a potato salad where the funding goal was $10. Yet as you can see the project already reached almost $3700:<\/p>\n

\"potatosalad\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny as there are a ton of people who try to raise thousands with no luck yet something like this generates a lot of money. I guess it goes to show you that sometimes it is simply about being entertaining to raise money as opposed to trying to sell people into an idea. Kind of like the whole investing in people mentality. You see something new every day\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was just kind of odd as I stumbled upon this crowd funding project on Kickstarter as you can see here: https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/324283889\/potato-salad Okay, unless I am missing something it is literally just a person saying that they are going to make a potato salad where the funding goal was $10. Yet as you can see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"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":[4],"tags":[4107,2932,2134,21,5041],"class_list":["post-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-crowd-funding","tag-entertainment","tag-kickstarter","tag-money","tag-potato-salad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1057.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1vm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","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=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}