{"id":3339,"date":"2016-03-26T13:24:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2016-03-26T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:05:59","slug":"portion-of-amazon-com-purchases-to-benefit-john-updike-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/26\/portion-of-amazon-com-purchases-to-benefit-john-updike-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Portion of Amazon.com purchases to benefit John Updike Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3340\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-26-at-1.00.08-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-26 at 1.00.08 PM\" width=\"298\" height=\"249\" \/>If you shop Amazon.com, you can help the John Updike Society by changing your bookmark from amazon.com to <strong>smile.amazon.com<\/strong>\u00a0so that all orders go through the &#8220;smile&#8221; url.\u00a0Amazon will donate .5 percent of eligible purchases directly to the Society.<\/p>\n<p>Once you designate the John Updike Society as your charity, bookmark the page and every time you buy something through Amazon you will go through the smile program and .5 percent will automatically go to our non-profit organization. The prices are no different, and it&#8217;s no more difficult to shop\u00a0through the smile portal\u00a0than through amazon.com. It&#8217;s just their way of tracking donations.<\/p>\n<p>Spread the word. Point 5\u00a0percent might not sound like a lot, but it adds up, and every little bit helps when we&#8217;re in the midst of restoring The John Updike Childhood Home and turning it into a museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you shop Amazon.com, you can help the John Updike Society by changing your bookmark from amazon.com to smile.amazon.com\u00a0so that all orders go through the &#8220;smile&#8221; url.\u00a0Amazon will donate .5 percent of eligible purchases directly to the Society. Once you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/03\/26\/portion-of-amazon-com-purchases-to-benefit-john-updike-society\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}