{"id":573885329,"date":"2013-09-18T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T03:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573885329"},"modified":"2013-09-22T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T00:11:03","slug":"two-videos-worth-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/09\/18\/two-videos-worth-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Two videos worth your time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been saying for some time now that I want an aerial drone. You can chip in for a nice one for me and I’ll think of you every time I fly it and edit amazing (to me) videos. <\/p>\n

If that’s too expensive, I’d understand. You can always train an eagle and strap a camera on its back. I’d take that:<\/p>\n

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I never get tired of these crowd-funding stories. This one is about a woman in Texas who is fighting stage four lymphoma. Her family asked for help getting a good place to tailgate before a Texas A&M game. Someone picked up that idea and ran with it. And then Aggies from all over the world<\/em>, people who didn’t know each other, did something amazing<\/strong>. The video is a bit long, but it is worth it:<\/p>\n

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They put together more than $13,000, food, a shopping spree, sideline passes and more. They were just looking for a tailgating spot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Never underestimate the genuine decency and affection people can have for strangers. And gig ‘it, Shannon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Three things from the multimedia blog that I forgot to link to here yesterday:<\/p>\n

Where your audience is growing<\/a><\/p>\n

Squeegee superheroes<\/a><\/p>\n

Covering mass shootings, traumas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last night<\/strong> the student-journalists at The Samford Crimson wrapped things up at about 3 a.m., a two hour improvement from last week. <\/p>\n

At their critique meeting this evening I bragged on them — they’re doing a really good job at such an early point in their newspaper — and told them we were already down to picking on a lot of little things. Soon we’ll be on to the tough love, and challenging each other to go from good to great. <\/p>\n

You can see the online version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been saying for some time now that I want an aerial drone. You can chip in for a nice one for me and I’ll think of you every time I fly it and edit amazing (to me) videos. If that’s too expensive, I’d understand. You can always train an eagle and strap a camera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573885329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-samford","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573885329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573885330,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885329\/revisions\/573885330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573885329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573885329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573885329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}