{"id":3778,"date":"2015-12-27T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2015-12-27T20:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:26:29","slug":"vidcast-568-not-so-secret-santa-1512-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"Vidcast # 568 \u2013 Not So Secret Santa \u2013 1512.27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treksinscifi.com\/images\/tsf5683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week I have a special vidcast for all of you. \u00a0The idea this year instead of our usual gift exchange (&#8216;Secret Santa&#8217;) was to try and donate and give something back to the community either via donations, helping out a family, or whatever you could do for others during this holiday season. \u00a0I share some of my thoughts on this and where I sent some donations myself. \u00a0I also share some videos from those who participated in this idea and sent me video too. \u00a0Also, I share some of my cool gifts that my family was kind to get for me. \u00a0Finally, there is always time to donate and give back &#8211; so don&#8217;t let the fact that Christmas is over for this year stop you from helping others in need out.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend I&#8217;m going to try to arrange a Skype Call to talk &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; and wrap up the year with some friends and geek talk. \u00a0Take care until then and have a safe and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TSF #568 - Not So Secret Santa\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/150121787?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1879\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3778-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_568_SSanta.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_568_SSanta.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_568_SSanta.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_568_SSanta.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?powerpress_pinw=3778-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/treksinscifi\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_568_SSanta.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TreksinSciFi_568_SSanta.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have a special vidcast for all of you. \u00a0The idea this year instead of our usual gift exchange (&#8216;Secret Santa&#8217;) was to try and donate and give something back to the community either via donations, helping out a family, or whatever you could do for others during this holiday season. \u00a0I share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}