{"id":784,"date":"2010-09-14T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2010-09-14T06:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:55:28","slug":"birthday-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 2010 will be my 40th birthday.I want a camera.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nikonusa.com\/Find-Your-Nikon\/Product\/Digital-SLR\/25446\/D90.html\">Nikon  d90<\/a>, which I cannot afford.\u00c2\u00a0 But I\u2019m hoping some people will be  willing to help.\u00c2\u00a0 In lieu of a card or any other gift, I\u2019m asking for $4  instead ($1 for every decade).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can give more.\u00c2\u00a0 And no, you don\u2019t have to give anything.\u00c2\u00a0  There\u2019s no requirement or expectation, no promise of reciprocation,  nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?page_id=720\">There\u2019s now a Donate button.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some details:<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, the price of the camera kit at Amazon fluctuates  frequently, but remains somewhere near $1,050.\u00c2\u00a0 This includes one lens.\u00c2\u00a0  There\u2019s a second lens, an 70-300mm, that I also want, currently around  $600.\u00c2\u00a0 If birthday\/camera money somehow goes over this amount (plus  shipping, etc.), which I doubt, I\u2019ll donate all excess funds to either  Habitat for Humanity or the Red Cross, or both, if there\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n<p>(There is, in fact, a third lens, but it\u2019s less than $150 and can  wait.)<br \/>\nI could ask for more sensible things.\u00c2\u00a0 But it\u2019s a birthday, and it\u2019s all  I want, and I can\u2019t ask any one person for this camera.\u00c2\u00a0 However, if  people contribute, and either make it more possible or provide me with  enough to purchase it, I\u2019ll be a very happy birthday boy come  mid-September.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>September 16, 2010 will be my 40th birthday.I want a camera.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically, a Nikon d90, which I cannot afford.\u00c2\u00a0 But I\u2019m hoping some people will <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=784\" title=\"Birthday Camera\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}