{"id":2263,"date":"2004-02-21T02:10:05","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/21\/help-send-flowers-to-the-newlyweds\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:26:10","slug":"help-send-flowers-to-the-newlyweds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/21\/help-send-flowers-to-the-newlyweds\/","title":{"rendered":"Help send flowers to the newlyweds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11693,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\\\/flowers&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190219221528\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\\\/flowers\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\\\/flowers&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11694,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ephemera.org\\\/justly&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11695,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/arcterex.net\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/20\\\/random_acts_of_flowers.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090106183157\\\/http:\\\/\\\/arcterex.net\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/20\\\/random_acts_of_flowers.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:41:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:41:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Another nice project springing up over the past few days &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/flowers\/\" title=\"Flowers for Al and Don\">Flowers for Al and Don<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This afternoon, on Boing Boing, I read about this great idea. Basically, people are generously sending flowers to random gay couples waiting in line to get married in San Francisco. This is a brilliant idea, but I immediately recognized a problem. The flower shop cited, Flowers by the Bay, is apparently charging a minimum of US \\$47 to deliver these flowers. That&#8217;s probably market value, but it&#8217;s a bit steep for individuals who might want to help out (particularly if they&#8217;re paying in Canadian dollars or other weaker currencies) but can&#8217;t spare fifty bucks.<\/p>\n<p>  Hence, Flowers for Al and Don. I&#8217;m using a PayPal account to collect money, with which I&#8217;ll buy bouquets in bulk for the couples in line. You can donate as much or little as you please, and I pledge that every cent (minus the PayPal fees) that I receive will go to this project. If make a donation, and want your name and\/or Web site to be listed below, let me know when making your payment in PayPal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s raised over \\$4000 dollars so far &#8212; that&#8217;s a lot of flowers! But I&#8217;m sure there are still some happy couples waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also worth checking out: <a href=\"http:\/\/ephemera.org\/justly\/\" title=\"Justly Married\">Justly Married<\/a>, a gallery of images of legally married couples coming out of City Hall in San Francisco. I don&#8217;t see how anyone could go through that photo gallery without a grin on their face.<\/p>\n<p>(both links via <a href=\"http:\/\/arcterex.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/20\/random_acts_of_flowers.html\" title=\"Random Acts of Flowers\">Arcterex<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another nice project springing up over the past few days &mdash; Flowers for Al and Don.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","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=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}