{"id":459,"date":"2008-11-03T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2008-11-03T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T12:35:00","slug":"hey-i-won-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Hey &#8211; I won something!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well &#8211; I didn&#8217;t <em>win<\/em> win.  Like not <em>first<\/em> prize.  I am still pretty tickled about it though.  <\/p>\n<p>See this magazine?  Gardening How-To, published by the National Home Gardening Club.  I have been subscribing to it for probably 10 years or so.  It isn&#8217;t my favorite gardening magazine, but for only $12 a year it isn&#8217;t bad.  They send out products for subscribers to test, which I have done frequently and also have monthly giveaways which I have yet to win.  Anyway &#8211; see way up at the top of the cover?  &#8220;Photo Contest Winners&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SQ5lN6SGQpI\/AAAAAAAADpg\/1wMB7ynSvF4\/s1600-h\/mag1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SQ5lN6SGQpI\/AAAAAAAADpg\/1wMB7ynSvF4\/mag1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264256304100557458\" \/><\/a>Now look at E.  Woohoo &#8211; that is me!  Honorable Mention!  I entered 3 photos on a whim, on the last day you could enter and then forgot all about it until I a letter 6 weeks ago, letting me know that one of my photos had been chosen and I won $75 of organic gardening products.<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SQ5nt0F4wZI\/AAAAAAAADpo\/vc9qDEI-KDY\/s1600-h\/mag2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SQ5nt0F4wZI\/AAAAAAAADpo\/vc9qDEI-KDY\/mag2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264259051217797522\" \/><\/a>There it is &#8211; down at the bottom of the page!<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SQ5nuDOBQaI\/AAAAAAAADpw\/8A16YCzT11Y\/s1600-h\/mag3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SQ5nuDOBQaI\/AAAAAAAADpw\/8A16YCzT11Y\/mag3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264259055278440866\" \/><\/a>You may remember seeing it <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/spring-afternoon.html\">here<\/a>, back in the spring &#8211; my favorite hosta which is called &#8220;Kabitan&#8221;  I love the color and the graceful curve of the leaves. It&#8217;s worth another look I think.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SC5AEGpMcNI\/AAAAAAAABfI\/DXQb2xXP_Vc\/s1600-h\/kabitan2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SC5AEGpMcNI\/AAAAAAAABfI\/DXQb2xXP_Vc\/kabitan2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201165058906550482\" \/><\/a> So now, between the photos I have sold and this prize, I can say &#8220;See honey &#8211; buying nice cameras pays off!  Right?  Right?  Honey?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well &#8211; I didn&#8217;t win win. Like not first prize. I am still pretty tickled about it though. See this magazine? Gardening How-To, published by the National Home Gardening Club. I have been subscribing to it for probably 10 years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}