{"id":232,"date":"2009-11-12T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T09:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=232&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2009-11-12T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T09:13:25","slug":"northampton-hostel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/america\/northampton-hostel-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hostel Northampton Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A college friend of mine, Jeanine Dargis, is starting up a hostel in Northampton, Massachusetts, near my alma mater (sort of) of Hampshire College.\u00a0 I was actually rather surprised that there wasn&#8217;t already a hostel in that town, considering the sort of nice little place that it is.<\/p>\n<p>In order for the project to move forward, they need to raise some money.\u00a0 $15,000 dollars.\u00a0 I decided to pitch in a bit, because starting a hostel is something I&#8217;ve thought about, and I&#8217;d like to see them succeed.\u00a0 The neat thing about this donation system is that your donation doesn&#8217;t actually become a real donation unless they meet their funding goal.\u00a0 In that sense, it&#8217;s a pledge, kind of like the pledges in elementary school for Jump Rope for Heart.\u00a0 Your uncle&#8217;s 1\u00a2 per jump pledge will only becoming a $20 donation if you actually bother to do all 2000 jumps.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you appreciate the uniqueness of hostelling and feel like chipping in, go to the link below and pledge some dollars to help them meet their goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/hostelnorthampton\/the-hostel-northampton-project\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/hostelnorthampton\/the-hostel-northampton-project\/widget\/card.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college friend of mine, Jeanine Dargis, is starting up a hostel in Northampton, Massachusetts, near my alma mater (sort of) of Hampshire College.\u00a0 I was actually rather surprised that there wasn&#8217;t already a hostel in that town, considering the sort of nice little place that it is. In order for the project to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}