{"id":509,"date":"2008-12-12T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2008-12-12T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T14:21:00","slug":"riley-insists-giveaway-4-is-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Riley insists &#8211; Giveaway #4 is his!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was making a list of the giveaways I have planned this month, when I realized that once again, someone was staring at me.<br \/>Me: Can I help you with something?<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">Well first, I am in a very nice down &#8211; I should get a cookie for that, don&#8217;t you think?<\/span><br \/>Me: I think that only works if I have actually <strong><em>told<\/em><\/strong> you to lay down, doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">I don&#8217;t see any reason to put a lot of restrictions on things like this. It just makes life more stressful.<\/span><br \/>Me: You may have a point &#8211; I will get you a cookie in a minute. Was there anything else?<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ5JFEoqrI\/AAAAAAAAD_0\/NnA3RrF8ab0\/s1600-h\/down.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278914910119045810\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ5JFEoqrI\/AAAAAAAAD_0\/NnA3RrF8ab0\/down.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">I noticed you are having all these giveaways this month.<br \/><\/span>Me: That&#8217;s right. I am celebrating daily blogging for a whole year and thanking everyone who visits here every day.<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">I want to give something away! People on your blog LOVE me! You know they do! Can I have a giveaway too? I think I should. Don&#8217;t you think I should have a giveaway too?<\/span><br \/>Me: That is a very nice idea actually. Did you have something in mind?<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ5IzyMvpI\/AAAAAAAAD_s\/Pc2f5vMj7LM\/s1600-h\/think.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278914905478315666\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ5IzyMvpI\/AAAAAAAAD_s\/Pc2f5vMj7LM\/think.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Riely: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">How about this Kurt Adler &#8220;Best Dog&#8221; Christmas ornament?<\/span><br \/>Me: That is very cute &#8211; but what if someone doesn&#8217;t have a dog?<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">There are people without a dog?<br \/><\/span>Me: Yes &#8211; a lot actually.<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">Well they don&#8217;t know what they are missing!<br \/><\/span>Me: I have to agree with you there.<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">If they don&#8217;t have a dog, they can just put it on their tree for me &#8211; I am a pretty good dog. Or they can give it to another dog for Christmas!<br \/><\/span>Me: Well, I am sure they will figure something out.<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ52oqa8OI\/AAAAAAAAD_8\/e-aHD0aRCsE\/s1600-h\/ornament.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278915692766884066\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ52oqa8OI\/AAAAAAAAD_8\/e-aHD0aRCsE\/ornament.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">Yay! Leave a comment everybody &#8211; that will enter you in the giveaway &#8211; MY giveaway! Tell me what your favorite cookie is. I like these yummy ones that have toothbrushes on the top &#8211; they are very crunchy. And if you send other people here from your blog, come back and tell me that in another comment so that you can have 2 entries! The contest ends Saturday night at midnight EST and I will come back Sunday to tell you who won. Yay!<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ5IrSMqzI\/AAAAAAAAD_k\/GOTP4aO5Tcs\/s1600-h\/look.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278914903196609330\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ5IrSMqzI\/AAAAAAAAD_k\/GOTP4aO5Tcs\/look.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Me: You did that very well.<br \/>Riely &#8211; W<span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">ell of course I did. Am I not a famous blogging dog?<br \/><\/span>Me: You are a little famous at least. You are certainly famous with the UPS drivers.<br \/>Riley: <span style=\"color:#cc6600;\">Let&#8217;s not bring UPS into the discussion. Can I have my cookie now? They are right up there, on that counter, in the cannister with a wooden top. See &#8211; right up there! C&#8217;mon, c&#8217;mon &#8211; right up there!<br \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ8Nyd62-I\/AAAAAAAAEAE\/wo7cVztg08U\/s1600-h\/shelf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278918289559051234\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SUJ8Nyd62-I\/AAAAAAAAEAE\/wo7cVztg08U\/shelf.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Me: Good dog!<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it folks &#8211; leave Riley a comment and enter his very own giveaway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was making a list of the giveaways I have planned this month, when I realized that once again, someone was staring at me.Me: Can I help you with something?Riley: Well first, I am in a very nice down &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=509\">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":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}