{"id":48,"date":"2010-10-11T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microcosmpublishing.dev\/blog\/2010\/10\/our-new-diy-book-how-and-why-is-on-kickstarter\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:10:30","slug":"our-new-diy-book-how-and-why-is-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/our-new-diy-book-how-and-why-is-on-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new DIY book, How and Why, is on Kickstarter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>  Hello friends of Microcosm!<\/p>\n<p>  We&#8217;re reaching out to you  because you&#8217;ve all been very supportive of us over the last fifteen years. <\/p>\n<p>  Thanks again for helping make so many things happen. These projects  mean a lot to us, and it&#8217;s always heartening to hear they mean  something to other people, too. It&#8217;s been extremely cool to connect  with so many rad people in recent years. Thanks for being out there and  doing what you do!<\/p>\n<p>The motivating force behind this message is to let you know our new DIY book <i>How and Why<\/i>  is being designed and is nearly ready to go. We&#8217;ve put a few years into making it as awesome as it can be and the only thing   remaining to get it out there is to raise the money for printing. If you&#8217;d like a copy (or five) of <i>How and Why<\/i>,  or need to replace some of our other books that you loaned to a friend,  or need some presents for special people in your life, or just want to  continue supporting our independent publishing:<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/897079804\/print-matte-resists-new-book-how-and-why\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/897079804\/print-matte-resists-new-book-how-and-why<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>    If you&#8217;re into what we&#8217;re doing, it would help a lot if you could spread   the word via email, facebook, twitter, yelling on street corners, or whatever comes naturally to you.<\/p>\n<p>  Thanks a lot! And do stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p>-Microcosm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>  P.S. We don&#8217;t plan on using Kickstarter for every new book that we  release. We really try to only use it when we have to but it&#8217;s been a  rough year, so of course we respond by trying to do a lot of stuff that  we think is awesome!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new DIY book How and Why is being designed and is nearly ready to go. We&#8217;ve put a few years into making it as awesome as it can be and the only thing remaining to get it out there is to raise the money for printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto"],"my_excerpt":"<blockquote>  Hello friends of Microcosm!<br \/>  <br \/>  We're reaching out to you  because you've all been very supportive of us over the last fifteen years. <br \/>  <br \/>  Thanks again for helping make so many things happen. These projects  mean a lot to us, and it's always heartening to hear they mean  something to other people, too. It's been extremely cool to connect  with so many rad people in recent years. Thanks for being out there and  doing what you do!<br \/>  <br \/>The motivating force behind this message is to let you know our new DIY book <i>How and Why<\/i>  is being designed and is nearly ready to go. We've put a few years into making it as awesome as it can be and the only thing   remaining to get it out there is to raise the money for printing. If you'd like a copy (or five) of <i>How and Why<\/i>,  or need to replace some of our other books that you loaned to a friend,  or need some presents for special people in your life, or just want to  continue supporting our independent publishing:<br \/>  <br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/897079804\/print-matte-resists-new-book-how-and-why\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/897079804\/print-matte-resists-new-book-how-and-why<\/a><br \/><\/blockquote><div>&nbsp;<\/div><blockquote>    If you're into what we're doing, it would help a lot if you could spread   the word via email, facebook, twitter, yelling on street corners, or whatever comes naturally to you.<br \/>  <br \/>  Thanks a lot! And do stay in touch.<br \/>  <br \/>-Microcosm<br \/><\/blockquote><div>&nbsp;<\/div><blockquote>  P.S. We don't plan on using Kickstarter for every new book that we  release. We really try to only use it when we have to but it's been a  rough year, so of course we respond by trying to do a lot of stuff that  we think is awesome!<\/blockquote>","my_excerpt_rendered":"<blockquote><p>  Hello friends of Microcosm!<\/p>\n<p>  We&#8217;re reaching out to you  because you&#8217;ve all been very supportive of us over the last fifteen years. <\/p>\n<p>  Thanks again for helping make so many things happen. These projects  mean a lot to us, and it&#8217;s always heartening to hear they mean  something to other people, too. It&#8217;s been extremely cool to connect  with so many rad people in recent years. Thanks for being out there and  doing what you do!<\/p>\n<p>The motivating force behind this message is to let you know our new DIY book <i>How and Why<\/i>  is being designed and is nearly ready to go. We&#8217;ve put a few years into making it as awesome as it can be and the only thing   remaining to get it out there is to raise the money for printing. If you&#8217;d like a copy (or five) of <i>How and Why<\/i>,  or need to replace some of our other books that you loaned to a friend,  or need some presents for special people in your life, or just want to  continue supporting our independent publishing:<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/897079804\/print-matte-resists-new-book-how-and-why\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/897079804\/print-matte-resists-new-book-how-and-why<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>    If you&#8217;re into what we&#8217;re doing, it would help a lot if you could spread   the word via email, facebook, twitter, yelling on street corners, or whatever comes naturally to you.<\/p>\n<p>  Thanks a lot! And do stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p>-Microcosm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>  P.S. We don&#8217;t plan on using Kickstarter for every new book that we  release. We really try to only use it when we have to but it&#8217;s been a  rough year, so of course we respond by trying to do a lot of stuff that  we think is awesome!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}