{"id":949,"date":"2008-03-12T02:16:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2008-03-12T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T14:50:51","slug":"a-favor-from-my-readers-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"A favor from my readers, please…"},"content":{"rendered":"

See comment at the end of this post – now I feel stupid…<\/p>\n

Most of you know of or have heard of\u00a0Liftport – the company that audaciously went into business to build a Space Elevator.\u00a0 The company was composed of some\u00a0occasionally paid\u00a0people and many volunteers – people who worked on this project because they believed in the dream.<\/p>\n

One of them is Brian Dunbar – the system administrator \/ webmaster \/ all around tech-guy for Liftport.\u00a0 If you’ve ever had any dealings with Brian, you know that he is gracious, kind and a pleasure to work with.\u00a0 In addition to his ‘day job’ and his work at Liftport, he also has a blog<\/a>, a good one, one which is in my RSS reader so that I can always stay up to date with his musings and commentary.<\/p>\n

Today I was shocked and saddened to learn on his blog<\/a> that Brian’s wife has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).\u00a0 Melissa has been a huge supporter of all things Tolkien and has been waiting expectantly for the production and release of THE HOBBIT.<\/p>\n

Brian has come up with the brilliant idea of petitioning New Line (the producers of THE HOBBIT) to cast Melissa as an extra in the movie.\u00a0 As he puts it;<\/p>\n

“We don’t know the course her disease will take, so she worries that she won’t be around to see the movies in theaters, so this was the next best thing. Even being a non-speaking crowd-hobbit in the background of one scene would still mean the world to her. It would be her reason to hang on.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We all get\u00a0unceasing mail appeals\u00a0asking us to contribute money and we all see the emails circulated to support this and that.\u00a0 Well I am asking all my readers to sign this petition<\/a>; it will cost you no money and only a little of your time and it is for a great cause.\u00a0 After all, this is one of our own.<\/p>\n

If you have a blog or a way to further this information, do so – spread this as far and wide as you can.<\/p>\n

I’m signature # 1,424.<\/p>\n

12MAR08 – Update.\u00a0 I totally misinterpreted Brian’s blog post – this is NOT his wife, but rather he was passing this project and petition along as a favor to a fellow fan.\u00a0 When I found this out, I was conflicted – should I just pull this post as it is so obviously wrong, or should I just leave it to spread the word.\u00a0 I’ve decided to leave it, but I sincerely apologize to my readers for my mistake.\u00a0 I guess I should not be making blog posts at 2:30 am…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See comment at the end of this post – now I feel stupid… Most of you know of or have heard of\u00a0Liftport – the company that audaciously went into business to build a Space Elevator.\u00a0 The company was composed of some\u00a0occasionally paid\u00a0people and many volunteers – people who worked on this project because they believed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}