{"id":674,"date":"2012-04-27T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=674"},"modified":"2012-04-27T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:40:12","slug":"kickstarter-the-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter: the aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=670\">Kickstarting research<\/a>\u00a0I asked for comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ibdknox\/light-table\">Light Table project<\/a>. They were largely positive. Now, for the sake of argument, let&#8217;s assume this will be a complete disaster (a reasonable assumption based on history). What are the consequences?<\/p>\n<p>Are people going to be pissed off and give similar efforts a bad rap? Or will they just see it as $50 donated to a good cause? Or, to paraphrase P.T.Barnum, is there a micro-investor born every minute?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Kickstarting research\u00a0I asked for comments on the Light Table project. They were largely positive. Now, for the sake of argument, let&#8217;s assume this will be a complete disaster (a reasonable assumption based on history). What are the consequences? Are people going to be pissed off and give similar efforts a bad rap? Or will they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kickstarter: the aftermath&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfEnU-aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}