{"id":525,"date":"2009-12-22T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/22\/competition-updates\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:10:00","slug":"competition-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/22\/competition-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly believe this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/U6E5B2CE1\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/the-best-nature-network-blog-posts-ever-the-results\">I won the Nature Network poll<\/a> for best blog post in 2008!<\/p>\n<p>WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who went over and voted for me! <\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m so awesome, I&#8217;ve come up with the following &#8220;trophy&#8221; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/first-annual-vwxynot-readers-choice.html\">First Annual VWXYNot? Readers&#8217; Choice Comment of the Year Award!<\/a> I just know that whoever wins is going to be delighted to display a photo of me on their blog.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SzEY8etpxCI\/AAAAAAAABv0\/U2uzs-JLY5U\/s1600-h\/2009comment.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SzEY8etpxCI\/AAAAAAAABv0\/U2uzs-JLY5U\/s320\/2009comment.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microbiologistxx.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/ive-been-nominated.html\">Microbiologist XX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arduousblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/vote-for-me.html\">Ruchi<\/a> have both upped the ante with posts encouraging their regular readers to vote, while current poll leader Massimo <a href=\"http:\/\/arduousblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/vote-for-me.html?showComment=1261152990167#c8964480951088106333\">is taking the high road<\/a>&#8230; at least for now. Nine days left, so if you haven&#8217;t already voted, you know what to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly believe this, but I won the Nature Network poll for best blog post in 2008! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Thank you to everyone who went over and voted for me! Since I&#8217;m so awesome, I&#8217;ve come up with the following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/22\/competition-updates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,41,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","category-meta","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}