{"id":18,"date":"2007-02-19T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/i-win-an-award\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T15:32:00","slug":"i-win-an-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/i-win-an-award\/","title":{"rendered":"I Win an Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosody.co.uk\/2007\/02\/19\/carnival-of-video-game-bloggers\/\">Carnival of Video Game Bloggers<\/a> shortly after starting this site.  I found out today I won an award for my posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next award is one of my favourites: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Best Writer of Rants and\/or Reviews<\/span>. In order to win this award, the writer has to be adept at balancing the fiery and articulate sides of blogging, and nobody did this better than the winner of this award: Jigsaw hc of Jigsaw hc\u2019s Rants and Reviews! His posts \u201cTop 3 Problems with Xbox Live Arcade\u201d and \u201cGameFly.com vs GameznFlix.com\u201d both juggle constructive advice with a little healthy ranting. Watch that blood pressure, though!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My thanks to James Newton for the award and for forming the Carnival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the Carnival of Video Game Bloggers shortly after starting this site. I found out today I won an award for my posts. The next award is one of my favourites: Best Writer of Rants and\/or Reviews. In order to win this award, the writer has to be adept at balancing the fiery and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[41,42],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-award","tag-carnival-of-video-game-bloggers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}