{"id":2362,"date":"2003-08-23T02:10:24","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2009-11-08T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:11:17","slug":"because-someone-has-to-support-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/because-someone-has-to-support-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Because someone has to support innovation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Switala Foundation supports creativity and innovation in the arts and media.\u00a0 Started in 2002 by my dear friend, Rebecca Bernstein, for her husband, Tim Switala, \u201ca creative innovator, who dedicated his life to helping others think outside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googoodolls.com\/\">Goo Goo Dolls <\/a> are performing at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center on August 26, 7 PM.\u00a0 A dollar from every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/000036C5D401B97B\">ticket<\/a> will go to support the Switala Foundation.\u00a0 \u201cI think that someone who was that inspiring to us\u2026 to see this positive influence carry on through him and the work that he did is a pretty huge thing. The fact that his name and his energy can still be a catalyst for people to do new and creative things &#8211; well, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211;Robby Takac<\/p>\n<p>Support creativity!\u00a0 Learn more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switalafoundation.org\/\">Switala Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switala Foundation supports creativity and innovation in the arts and media.\u00a0 Started in 2002 by my dear friend, Rebecca Bernstein, for her husband, Tim Switala, \u201ca creative innovator, who dedicated his life to helping others think outside the box.\u201d The Goo Goo Dolls are performing at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center on August 26,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,6],"tags":[642,273,54],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","category-writing","tag-arts","tag-creativity","tag-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}