{"id":3558,"date":"2013-03-14T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2013-03-13T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:56:24","slug":"we-used-to-be-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/we-used-to-be-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"We Used To Be Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vmars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3559\" alt=\"vmars\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vmars.jpg\" width=\"651\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vmars.jpg 930w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/vmars-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since the show was cancelled back in 2007, <em>Veronica Mars<\/em> creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell have talked about reviving the characters for a movie. \u00a0It always seemed like a pipe dream, until yesterday morning, when the pair launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/559914737\/the-veronica-mars-movie-project\">Kickstarter<\/a> campaign to fund the film. \u00a0The goal: raise $2,000,000 in 30 days. \u00a0Judging by the response so far, Mars Investigations will be back in business next year.<\/p>\n<p>The project has broken a Kickstarter record by passing the $1 million mark in under 5 hours. \u00a0The official goal of $2 million was surpassed at 7:55 PM. \u00a0Of course, the more money they raise, the more that can be spent on the movie.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up contributing $100, which entitles me to email updates about the project, a PDF of the shooting script, a limited edition t-shirt, a digital version of the movie at the time of the theatrical release, the official movie poster, and the Blu-Ray\/DVD combo pack. \u00a0I had considered splurging a bit and contributing $1000, which included all of the swag I&#8217;m already getting, plus a signed poster and tickets to the premiere and the after party. \u00a0Luckily, those sold out before I pulled the trigger, but I have certainly spent more on less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the show was cancelled back in 2007, Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell have talked about reviving the characters for a movie. \u00a0It always seemed like a pipe dream, until yesterday morning, when the pair launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the film. \u00a0The goal: raise $2,000,000 in 30 days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[3273,357,3274,2960],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-kickstarter","tag-kristen-bell","tag-rob-thomas","tag-veronica-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}