{"id":34865,"date":"2014-07-01T12:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=34865"},"modified":"2014-07-01T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T19:07:50","slug":"reading-rainbow-fans-break-kickstarter-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/07\/reading-rainbow-fans-break-kickstarter-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Rainbow Fans Break Kickstarter Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ReadingRainbowUpdate070114\"<\/p>\n

Thanks to the generosity of the fans, LeVar Burton<\/strong>‘s Reading Rainbow Kickstarter<\/em> is up to almost five million dollars in pledges.<\/p>\n

98,153 backers have pledged the amount, which is a new record for Kickstarter<\/em> backers.<\/p>\n

The campaign has only one more day to go, and each pledge is worth twice the pledge, with Seth MacFarlane<\/strong> matching the next million dollars in pledges.<\/p>\n

According to an update by Burton, “hundreds,” of fans “have written and commented to tell us that you’re increasing — even doubling — your pledges to take advantage of the matching. That means everything to us, and I hope you’ll be proud of what we accomplish together.”<\/p>\n

The Reading Rainbow<\/em> campaign is now one of the top five Kickstarter<\/em> projects of all time, behind Pebble<\/em> (an e-Paper watch), OUYA<\/em> (a video game console), Pono<\/em> Music, and the Veronica Mars Movie Project.<\/em><\/p>\n

Each of those four campaigns is also offering limited-edition rewards, one from each project, to help the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Details on the new perks can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the generosity of the fans, LeVar Burton‘s Reading Rainbow Kickstarter is up to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2416],"tags":[2451,4835,2881],"class_list":["post-34865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-fandom","tag-burton","tag-kickstarter","tag-reading-rainbow"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34871,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34865\/revisions\/34871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}