{"id":44143,"date":"2019-04-23T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=44143"},"modified":"2019-04-24T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:53:35","slug":"plenty-of-goldfish-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/plenty-of-goldfish-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Goldfish Were Harmed in the Making of This Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/goldfish2a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44146\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/goldfish2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/goldfish2a.jpg 494w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/goldfish2a-347x550.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a>You may wonder how we come up with our fundraising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Because, some of them are pure gold, right?<\/p>\n<p>Like the whole &#8220;if the Huntsmans can&#8217;t afford to pay for arts coverage how can we?&#8221; from last fall (for those of you wondering, we were finally able to fix the suspension on the 15 Bytes-mobile, our beloved 2001 Mazda Protege; the muffler, however, is in bad shape).<\/p>\n<p>Do we do market research or hire out a big ad agency? Nope. Every six months we get desperate. And desperation breeds creativity.<\/p>\n<p>We sit around a table and brainstorm. A snack helps. This time around it was Pepperidge Farm Goldfish snack crackers. Hence the theme of our campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Why the goldfish? The goldfish has a notoriously short attention span &#8211; 9 seconds. More notorious is modern homo sapiens &#8211; 8 seconds some recent studies say.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t buy that. Or buy into it. We think you want deep, rich experiences. Not the kind that only last 8 seconds. Which is what we bring you with our 15 Bytes coverage. The type of coverage that doesn&#8217;t just look\u00a0<em>at<\/em>\u00a0art, but looks\u00a0<em>into<\/em>\u00a0it, that asks it questions and gives it context &#8211; that knows what was happening in Utah or an artist&#8217;s studio 10 years ago -because we covered it &#8211; and (with your help) will be here 10 years from now to see where that art has gone.<\/p>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/the-goldfish-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to support our Goldfish campaign\u00a0to keep 15 Bytes going for another 6 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may wonder how we come up with our fundraising campaigns. Because, some of them are pure gold, right? Like the whole &#8220;if the Huntsmans can&#8217;t afford to pay for arts coverage how can we?&#8221; from last fall (for those of you wondering, we were finally able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/goldfish2a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 21:56:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44152,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions\/44152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}