{"id":1704,"date":"2016-03-31T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dylanradio.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2016-04-02T06:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T09:35:19","slug":"dylanradio-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/dylanradio-needs-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"DylanRadio Needs Your Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone enjoyed the March audiobook series!\u00a0 Hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to do that again, but in order to do things like that, DylanRadio needs your help.\u00a0 Rest assured, nobody hates asking for help more than me, but we&#8217;re rapidly approaching a financial barrier to keeping the site running, and I think that&#8217;s due to a couple of things, not the least of which is the uncertainty of today&#8217;s economy.\u00a0 I hate to bother folks with this stuff, but here it is:<\/p>\n<p>We need your regular, monthly support to keep this site online.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/walrus?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon support<\/a> has been dwindling, not in pledges, but in honoring those pledges.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t blame ANYONE for that because, let&#8217;s face it, stuff happens.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t always afford to donate every month, which would be fine if we had hundreds of patrons, but we don&#8217;t.\u00a0 We only have 21.\u00a0 The more patrons we have, the easier it is to meet our goals.\u00a0 I know I should have brought this up sooner, but, as it stands, I&#8217;m behind on the bills because I&#8217;ve been financially unable to make up the shortfall, never mind our hopes for expanding what we do here.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s first and foremost&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/walrus?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">we need your monthly Patreon support<\/a>.\u00a0 <del>I&#8217;m trying to sort things out with PayPal to allow one-time donations via them again, but for now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/walrus?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon<\/a> is what we&#8217;re stuck with.<\/del>\u00a0 So if you have a few bucks that YOU WON&#8217;T MISS (<em>can&#8217;t stress that enough &#8211; don&#8217;t pledge the milk-money<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/walrus?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">please click this link<\/a> and pledge your monthly support via Patron.\u00a0 <strong>Remember:<\/strong> <strong>Patreon supporters get access something extra that, I assure you, will make you very happy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a reward or subscription, it&#8217;s just a little &#8220;thank-you&#8221; gift for helping out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/walrus?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1555\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dylanradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patreon_navigation_logo_negative-300x70.png\" alt=\"patreon_navigation_logo_negative\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patreon_navigation_logo_negative-300x70.png 300w, http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patreon_navigation_logo_negative-1024x237.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/patreon_navigation_logo_negative.png 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I hate website ads as much as anyone, but this site contains a couple of unobtrusive Google ads that pay us a few cents per visit, but you won&#8217;t see those ads if you&#8217;re running AdBlock.\u00a0 I use AdBlock myself, but there&#8217;s a few sites that I really want to support (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/expectingrain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ExpectingRain<\/a>), so I disable AdBlock for those sites.\u00a0 You can usually just click the stop sign icon and say &#8220;Disable&#8221; or &#8220;Don&#8217;t Run&#8221; on this page.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be really nice if you could disable AdBlock when you visit this site, and feel free to visit any sponsor of interest to you.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I&#8217;m sorry for having to bring this up, and I&#8217;m sorry this has been such a long post.\u00a0 You folks have let me play Dylan&#8217;s music for you for nearly 10 years now, and I&#8217;d love to keep doing it for 10 more! YOU are the only reason this site exists.\u00a0 If it weren&#8217;t for you, I would have had to close up shop years ago.\u00a0 Thank you for that honor, my friends.<\/p>\n<p>~<em>Pete Freckelton<\/em> (The Walrus, your DJ)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0 Great News! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=YEJTSYQMP44P8\" target=\"_blank\">We can now accept PayPal donations again!<\/a> So, if you can&#8217;t commit to a monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/walrus?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon donation<\/a> (and in this economy, that includes most of us), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=YEJTSYQMP44P8\" target=\"_blank\">you can now make a one-time donation via PayPal by clicking this link!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AND, since we need to catch-up on some of these outstanding bills quickly, for a limited time, donations of $20 or more will get you the same &#8220;thank-you&#8221; gift that monthly Patreon sponsors receive. Please don&#8217;t feel obligated to donate, and certainly don&#8217;t donate the milk-money. DylanRadio is FREE, and will always be free, but that&#8217;s thanks to the folks who CAN donate.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone enjoyed the March audiobook series!\u00a0 Hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to do that again, but in order to do things like that, DylanRadio needs your help.\u00a0 Rest assured, nobody hates asking for help more than me, but we&#8217;re rapidly approaching a financial barrier to keeping the site running, and I think that&#8217;s due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}