{"id":1342,"date":"2003-06-30T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/watching-the-bat\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:29:04","slug":"watching-the-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/watching-the-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14335,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.deanforamerica.com\\\/blogcontribute&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240125035728\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.deanforamerica.com\\\/blogcontribute&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/deanforamerica.com\\\/blogcontribute&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:08:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 02:52:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 02:52:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12646,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogforamerica.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250109223520\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.blogforamerica.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tw.xingbar.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:08:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 15:06:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 23:28:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 11:23:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 17:45:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 14:44:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 12:59:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 12:59:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14335,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.deanforamerica.com\\\/blogcontribute&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240125035728\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.deanforamerica.com\\\/blogcontribute&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/deanforamerica.com\\\/blogcontribute&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:08:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 02:52:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 02:52:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/blogcontribute\/\" title=\"Contribute to the Howard Dean presidential campaign!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Contribute to the Howard Dean presidential campaign!\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/06\/graphics\/homerun2.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"222\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, this is really amazing &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogforamerica.com\/\" title=\"Blog for America\">Howard Dean campaign<\/a> is posting the results of their fundrasing in near-realtime, with updates every half hour, as this is the last day for fundrasing for this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Last week their goal was to hit six million in contributions.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, after passing six million, they raised the goal, hoping to hit six and a half million by the end of today.<\/p>\n<p>Around 12:15pm EST today, they broke the six and a half million mark, and raised the goal line on the bat to seven million. As of their last update, at 1:30pm EST, they&#8217;d raised \\$253,604 <em>today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/blogcontribute\" title=\"Contribute to Howard Dean's presidential campaign!\">Let&#8217;s help them out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, this is really amazing &mdash; the Howard Dean campaign is posting the results of their fundrasing in near-realtime, with updates every half hour, as this is the last day for fundrasing for this quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}