{"id":595,"date":"2007-07-03T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/07\/03\/its-a-contest\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:27:07","slug":"its-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, anyone who&#8217;s read this blog for more than a day or two should know that I love contests.  No, Really?  REALLY.  When a friend and I were at a re-grand opening of our local Roberts, store, they had a little &#8220;musical chairs&#8221; type game.  Every 15 minutes or so, they&#8217;d tell everyone to stand by a number in the store, then they would call out 3 or 4 numbers, and if you were standing by that number, you would win a prize!  The girl who was doing the announcing on the PA was having fun, I&#8217;m sure.  Because really, next to winning things, giving things away is almost as fun.  &#8220;I should do that job.&#8221;  I told my friend.  &#8220;You mean the announcer?&#8221; she asked, &#8220;then you couldn&#8217;t win anything.&#8221;  Which is true.  I would rather be winning.<\/p>\n<p>This got me to thinking.  There are a lot of blog contests out there, with several give-aways that I have seen (and many that I have entered).  I&#8217;ve actually won a blog contest drawing, and it was very cool to receive a present in the mail from someone that<em> I don&#8217;t even know<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s my turn to give something away.  To you, the readers.<\/p>\n<p>What are the prizes? you ask.<\/p>\n<p>1-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075148\/\">Rocky<\/a> on DVD.  New in the package.  Even though Ryan has NEVER seen Rocky (can you believe there&#8217;s a guy alive who has never seen Rocky?  Or Rocky II or III or any of them!?), we&#8217;ll probably never watch this movie.  But maybe you will.<\/p>\n<p>2-<a href=\"http:\/\/store.scrapbooking-warehouse.com\/266006.html\">A cute pink puzzle letter<\/a> set from Li&#8217;l Trinkets and Treasures.  It was in a little scrapbook kit thing, and since I really don&#8217;t scrapbook, I can&#8217;t think of a great use for this, but maybe you will.<\/p>\n<p>3-My favorite Ikea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/gb\/en\/catalog\/products\/10092928\">spatula set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a random grouping of things, I know.  And no, they aren&#8217;t super great or expensive prizes.  But this is my first blog give-away, so maybe I&#8217;ll get better at this in time, who knows.  Or maybe nobody will even enter and it will be a flop.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>So, just leave a comment and let me know you&#8217;d like to be entered into the drawing.  If you advertise for me on your own blog and link back to this post (increase readership, you know!), you&#8217;ll be entered twice.  On Thursday, we&#8217;ll have our high energy drawing, and I&#8217;ll contact you if you win!  It couldn&#8217;t be easier.  You don&#8217;t even have to be caller 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, anyone who&#8217;s read this blog for more than a day or two should know that I love contests. No, Really? REALLY. When a friend and I were at a re-grand opening of our local Roberts, store, they had a little &#8220;musical chairs&#8221; type game. Every 15 minutes or so, they&#8217;d tell everyone to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}