{"id":12,"date":"2009-11-22T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/81.86.147.124:7564\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-12-06T01:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T01:33:18","slug":"desert-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/2009\/11\/desert-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/desertbus.org\">Desert Bus for Hope<\/a> for the last day or so. It&#8217;s a charity marathon to raise money for Child&#8217;s Play, which gives games to children&#8217;s hospitals. But the main thing is that it&#8217;s run by the great sketch comedians at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/loadingreadyrun.com\">LoadingReadyRun.com<\/a>. Basically they&#8217;re playing the most boring game in existence &#8211; Desert Bus &#8211; for as long as the donations keep coming in.<\/p>\n<p>So far they&#8217;ve raised over $25000, and they beat what they raised in their first year within 24 hours of starting. Because of the amount they&#8217;ve raised so far, they&#8217;ll be going for at least 110 hours altogether. You* can prolong their suffering by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/desertbus.org\">desertbus.org<\/a> and donating.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to go and get some sleep before getting up and watching more of their live feeds. Maybe I&#8217;ll even get around to finishing some of my coursework before it&#8217;s due in on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>* Chances are you don&#8217;t exist, as I haven&#8217;t really told anyone the address of this blog yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: They finished after 5 and 2\/3 days, and raised over $137,000<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching Desert Bus for Hope for the last day or so. It&#8217;s a charity marathon to raise money for Child&#8217;s Play, which gives games to children&#8217;s hospitals. But the main thing is that it&#8217;s run by the great sketch comedians at\u00a0LoadingReadyRun.com. Basically they&#8217;re playing the most boring game in existence &#8211; Desert Bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryants.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}