{"id":193184,"date":"2009-01-11T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/11\/well-here-is-a-story-that-i-missed\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T02:53:00","slug":"well-here-is-a-story-that-i-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/11\/well-here-is-a-story-that-i-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Here is a Story that I Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprising young environmental protester Tim DeChristopher was at a demonstration against hurried auctions of government land next to some of the crown jewels of the National Park system by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup>, when an idea hit him: go into the auction, and bid against the people getting the sweetheart deals, and drive the prices up.<\/p>\n<p>He had no money, but he <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">did<\/span> drive the prices up, and DeChristopher, the now infamous &#8220;Bidder 70&#8221;, actually won a fair portion of the bids before authorities realized what was up, and they threw him out.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he has been collecting donations online, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=akFYlnepECrs\">now has the requisite $45,000.00 to make the first payment on the 13 leases that he won<\/a>, which accounted for roughly 15% of the total acreage that was sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>He still needs to pay a total of $1.7 million, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>You can donate to him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidder70.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprising young environmental protester Tim DeChristopher was at a demonstration against hurried auctions of government land next to some of the crown jewels of the National Park system by Bush and His Evil Minions&#038;trade, when an idea hit him: go into the auction, and bid against the people getting the sweetheart deals, and drive the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,970,1079,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-environment","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}