{"id":2456,"date":"2009-10-04T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/go-drew-carey-and-drew-olanoff\/"},"modified":"2009-10-04T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T16:43:05","slug":"go-drew-carey-and-drew-olanoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/go-drew-carey-and-drew-olanoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Drew (Carey) and Drew (Olanoff)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure that digital archaeologists in years to come will come to the conclusion that <strong><em>Drew is Patient Zero and that he was the cause of the world\u2019s cancer<\/em><\/strong>, but until then he\u2019s doing his best to raise the profile of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blamedrewscancer.com\/\">positive mental attitude<\/a>\u201d and raise a bucket load of money.<\/p>\n<p>The latest scheme is to auction his twitter name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drew\">@Drew<\/a>. Four letter names are pretty much gone on Twitter, and his thinking that there are enough Drews out there in celebrity world that he could get a lot of money for the screen name \u2013 which would go to the charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.org\/grassroots2009\/blamedrewscancer\">Livestrong Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blame Drew&#39;s Cancer\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"264\" alt=\"Blame Drew&#39;s Cancer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image64.png\" width=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>So Drew checked with Twitter, set a minimum of $10,000 on the name, and started the auction.<\/p>\n<p>Hats off to Drew Carey, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewFromTV\/status\/4592686593\">who\u2019s thrown up a first bid of $25,000<\/a>, and has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewFromTV\/status\/4592866731\">promised to up that to $100,000<\/a><\/strong> if his current account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drewfromTV\">@drewfromTV<\/a> breaks 100,000 followers by November 9th, which is when the bidding closes.<\/p>\n<p>So go follow Drew\u2026 both of them! \/\/\/for making a difference, keeping it real, and making the world a happier place no matter what it throws at you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure that digital archaeologists in years to come will come to the conclusion that Drew is Patient Zero and that he was the cause of the world\u2019s cancer, but until then he\u2019s doing his best to raise the profile of \u201cpositive mental attitude\u201d and raise a bucket load of money. The latest scheme is to auction his twitter name @Drew. Four letter names are pretty much gone on Twitter, and his thinking that there are enough Drews out there in celebrity world that he could get a lot of money for the screen name \u2013 which would go to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[685,52],"tags":[1392,1390,1395,1391,1394,1393,87],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter-web-20","category-web-2point0","tag-auction","tag-blame-drews-cancer","tag-decent-bloke","tag-drew","tag-drew-carey","tag-names","tag-twitter","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-DC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}