{"id":2869,"date":"2012-05-13T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2012-05-13T12:51:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T16:51:46","slug":"the-latest-kickstarter-project-im-backing-a-new-record-from-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/05\/13\/the-latest-kickstarter-project-im-backing-a-new-record-from-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest Kickstarter project I&#8217;m backing: a new record from The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* 468 x 60 Banner bottom *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3159198192\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2877\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2877\" data-attachment-id=\"2877\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/05\/13\/the-latest-kickstarter-project-im-backing-a-new-record-from-the-wild\/dsc_0130\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_0130-e1336925848444.jpg?fit=300%2C434\" data-orig-size=\"300,434\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC_0130\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Wild at The Wormhole&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_0130-e1336925848444.jpg?fit=207%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_0130-e1336925848444.jpg?fit=594%2C860\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_0130-e1336925848444.jpg?resize=300%2C434\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_0130\" width=\"300\" height=\"434\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2877\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wild at The Wormhole<\/p><\/div>I&#8217;ve mentioned The Wild a couple of times on this blog after seeing the Atlanta folk punk band open for The Queers at The Wormhole earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I realized The Wild had started a Kickstarter campaign to make their next record, they had already fully funded the $2,000 goal in less than two days. Still, I&#8217;m in &#8212; they have some great &#8220;rewards&#8221;, which basically amount to buying some really great stuff in advance.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a column and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/12\/kickstarter-crowd-source-funding-having-an-impact-in-savannah\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> about a month ago talking about Kickstarter&#8217;s impact here in Savannah. I think we&#8217;re now seeing a revolution in grassroots arts funding.<\/p>\n<p>And I know some people value their anonymity and\/or privacy in making donations, but I like the public nature of Kickstarter. Anyone interested in seeing the 7 projects that I&#8217;ve backed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/profiles\/billdawers\/projects\/backed\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewildatl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for The Wild&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the following video and link for more on the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1987262766\/help-the-wild-make-our-new-record\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1987262766\/help-the-wild-make-our-new-record\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220px\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned The Wild a couple of times on this blog after seeing the Atlanta folk punk band open for The Queers at The Wormhole earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/05\/13\/the-latest-kickstarter-project-im-backing-a-new-record-from-the-wild\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2877,"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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[184,328],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_0130-e1336925848444.jpg?fit=300%2C434","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-Kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}