{"id":494,"date":"2008-11-30T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:43:10","slug":"vacation-is-over-and-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Vacation is over – and a giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Giveaway 1 has ended – results <\/strong><\/span>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>!<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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How was your Thanksgiving? Despite hellacious drives both ways, we had a great time. Good food, plenty for which to be thankful, and as always, cooking with my sister is fun.On Black Friday, she and I went shopping, as we always do. We never have an agenda for this shopping trip – we don’t hit the stores at 4:00AM or stand in line to get the latest electronic marvel. It’s all about lunch really – because of course we are starving after the sparse eating of the previous day. Due to the fact that we arrive a bit later in the morning, finding a parking space can be a little time consuming. While trolling amongst the parked cars, looking for a person with shopping bags, so we can stalk them and get their parking space, we ran across this example of ….. creativity:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"I can’t think of anything to say that will add to your experience as you view these pictures – I think they stand on their own merits.\"\"<\/a>And now, we get to the GIVEAWAY<\/em><\/span><\/strong>! As part of my celebration of daily blogging for the last year, I am going to give some stuff away. Starting with this – the Gorham Holiday Traditions Angel of Peace Hurricane Lantern. Pretty cool, huh? To enter – please leave a comment describing your favorite Christmas [or other holiday] decoration, and why it is special to you. Then – if you mention the contest on your blog, Facebook or Twitter, please leave another comment and you will get an additional entry. Other than telling me that you have linked to the contest, please only leave one comment on this post. It is possible for one person to have 4 entries, which would include their original entry\/comment plus Twittering, blogging and mentioning on Facebook. For those last two, I need to be able to see the mention, so please friend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and I will do likewise. Please leave a separate comment for each mention, so that I don’t miss any of them. The contest will run until Midnight EST on Wednesday, with the winner being announced Thursday afternoon, and is limited to those in US only. I will choose a winner with the Random Integer Generator. Riley wanted to choose the winner based on who promised him the most cookies, but I told him that would not be fair, so I am doing it this way instead. Good luck to everyone and thanks for spreading the word.\"\"<\/a>And since I am back to work today, I am going to try and take the advice of this bumper sticker, also seen in the parking lot on Black Friday:\"\"<\/a>have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giveaway 1 has ended – results here! How was your Thanksgiving? Despite hellacious drives both ways, we had a great time. Good food, plenty for which to be thankful, and as always, cooking with my sister is fun.On Black Friday, … Continue reading →<\/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":[36],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}