{"id":87614121,"date":"2006-11-22T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614121"},"modified":"2006-11-22T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T07:10:15","slug":"omigod-made-it-to-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614121","title":{"rendered":"Omigod! Made it to round two!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how the heck it happened, but I made it through round one of the Canadian Blog Awards<\/a> in the Sci\/Tech category.<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, that’s not an entirely true statement. I *DO* know how the heck that happened: I have some wonderful friends and readers who were kind enough to go and vote (every day!) and I ended up with enough votes to place third<\/b>. How Canadian can one get? If I’d come in first, I’d be embarassed that someone somewhere was doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing<\/a>, but luckily the contest only allows one vote per day per person, so I can’t just let my devious mind sit there and hammer on the Vote\/Back buttons. Second would have felt sorta like I was a poser or someth-<\/p>\n

That’s it: #3 is the “kitchen party” of any contest.<\/p>\n

But no! I really didn’t harness my techie skills for evil! Not that I’ve ever done that<\/a> in the past on slightly less… stringent… online sweepstakes? (Seriously folks: I think gone are the days when we can sit at our desks and alternate clicks between the “See if you’ve won” and “Back” buttons for hours on end. If they hadn’t, I’d have a truckload of iPods in my storage locker right about now.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Happy Birthday to SomeChick<\/a>, even though she did end up at home with a Snuffleuppagus (is that how that’s spelled, or am I now going to get hits from other typo-addled muppetfans?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how the heck it happened, but I made it through round one of the Canadian Blog Awards in the Sci\/Tech category. Well, that’s not an entirely true statement. I *DO* know how the heck that happened: I have some wonderful friends and readers who were kind enough to go and vote (every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-people","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}