{"id":927,"date":"2008-05-27T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=927"},"modified":"2008-05-28T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:26:02","slug":"send-me-to-netroots-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Send Me To Netroots Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy for America is sponsoring a scholarship competition to send a worthy applicant to the Netroots Nation Conference in Austin, TX, in July. I have submitted an application for the scholarship and you can help me to win it.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">To support me you can click on this button:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\/netroots_nation_scholarships\/34-mark-howard\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\/dfa08\/5_21_net_roots_nation\/NN_nominate.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then just log in (or create an account), optionally leave a comment, and submit your nomination. You can also just <a href=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\/netroots_nation_scholarships\/34-mark-howard\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>visit this page<\/strong><\/a>, log in, and click the link under Grassroots Supporters that says <em>&#8220;add your support.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a great way to reward me for all the hard work I do here for which I receive no compensation. And I promise to blog the Conference so that you all can benefit from my attendance. This is also an excellent time for you to learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy for America<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netrootsnation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Netroots Nation<\/a> &#8211; two outstanding advocates of media reform and the progressive agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy for America is sponsoring a scholarship competition to send a worthy applicant to the Netroots Nation Conference in Austin, TX, in July. I have submitted an application for the scholarship and you can help me to win it. To support me you can click on this button: Then just log in (or create an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[310,311],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-democracy-for-america","tag-netroots-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2221,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2221","url_meta":{"origin":927,"position":0},"title":"Newsy Notes On Netroots Nation","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/26\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In case anyone missed me for the past five days, I was attending the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas. 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