{"id":3847,"date":"2012-08-14T14:17:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2012-10-19T06:15:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:15:41","slug":"belize-2012-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/08\/belize-2012-festival-3847.html","title":{"rendered":"Belize 2012 Festival&#8230; with a twist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t come across KickStarter yet, the concept is simple &#8211; people pledge $$ towards a project. If it reaches its funding goal, the project goes ahead, they take your money, and you get a predetermined gift or product. Sometimes it works amazingly well. I&#8217;ve actually helped fund movies and books, in return for a copy and sometimes my name in the credits &#8211; it&#8217;s a rewarding feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see this one taking off, but make up your own mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$412 per person for a Dec 21 celebration 3-day festival in Belize<\/li>\n<li>After the festival, everyone owns a share of the 54-acres of waterfront property<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?attachment_id=3848\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3848\" title=\"belize2\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/belize2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i propose three days of festival &#8211; december 20th 21st and 22nd. on 54 acres of incredible land. global music. artists. performers. speakers. filmmakers. comedians. bonfires and laughter under the moon. ceremony at cerros maya temple site.<\/p>\n<p>and here is the best part. after the festival you will own this land. always.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/scottmader\/open-source-ancient-futures-festival-belize-2012?ref=live\">Full details at Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chap behind it is a friend of prominent 2012er Daniel Pinchbeck. And the problem I have is that nothing is concrete. Not a single performer mentioned. If he is capable of putting a festival together, I&#8217;d expect that some acts would already be booked, subject to the festival proceeding. It all sounds too idealistic and not much else. But I&#8217;d love to see it happen, of course.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; the Kickstarter campaign has been suspended &#8211; no reason provided. Looks like it won&#8217;t be going ahead unless they find alternate funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t come across KickStarter yet, the concept is simple &#8211; people pledge $$ towards a project. If it reaches its funding goal, the project goes ahead, they take your money, and you get a predetermined gift or product. Sometimes it works amazingly well. I&#8217;ve actually helped fund movies and books, in return for a copy and sometimes my name in the credits &#8211; it&#8217;s a rewarding feeling.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t see this one taking off, but make up your own mind:<\/p>\n<p>$412 per person for a Dec 21 celebration 3-day festival in Belize<br \/>\nAfter the festival, everyone owns a share of the 54-acres of waterfront property<\/p>\n<p>i propose three days of festival &#8211; december 20th 21st and 22nd. on 54 acres of incredible land. global music. artists. performers. speakers. filmmakers. comedians. bonfires and laughter under the moon. ceremony at cerros maya temple site.<br \/>\nand here is the best part. after the festival you will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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