{"id":8433,"date":"2016-03-15T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2016-03-15T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:20:56","slug":"today-is-giving-day-which-means-you-are-on-the-wrong-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8433","title":{"rendered":"Today Is Giving Day, Which Means You Are On the Wrong Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1vfakPbtMM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday, March 15, 20016, is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23JMUGivingDay&amp;src=tyah\">#JMUGivingDay<\/a>. Which means you really need to stop reading this post, and head on over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/givingday.jmu.edu\">official JMU Giving Day<\/a> page to make a donation. Go do that, then come on back. We&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Thanks for that. As we explained on Friday, JMU Giving Day is a 24 hour online fundraising effort. We are honored to working with the Duke Club to help promote it. We&#8217;re making a donation to the Duke Club in the amount of $80 today, 20 bucks for each of JMU Softball&#8217;s wins over the weekend. That&#8217;s over and above our regular Duke Club donations, which let me tell you, are YUUUUUGE.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke Club&#8217;s goal is to raise $24,500 today. That&#8217;s the amount of one in state full athletic scholarship. We think the JMU community can do much better than that. And boy are we gonna be <a href=\"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8421\">disappointed if JMU can&#8217;t do better than Elon<\/a>. So please go make a donation and announce it with the hashtag #JMUGivingDay to help spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8433&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, March 15, 20016, is #JMUGivingDay. Which means you really need to stop reading this post, and head on over to the official JMU Giving Day page to make a donation. Go do that, then come on back. We&#8217;ll wait. OK. Thanks for that. As we explained on Friday, JMU Giving Day is a 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8421,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8421","url_meta":{"origin":8433,"position":0},"title":"Tuesday is JMU Giving Day","date":"March 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This Tuesday, March 15, JMU will be hosting its University-wide Giving Day. On this day, students, parents, fans, alumni and more will come together and help raise money for JMU. It\u2019s a one day online giving campaign to raise money for all of JMU, including the Duke Club. 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