{"id":2481,"date":"2008-12-02T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:24:39","slug":"twitter-reply-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/12\/02\/twitter-reply-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Reply Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished running the program to determine the winner of November&#8217;s Twitter contest.  You didn&#8217;t know there was a contest?  Yes, indeed there was, although I hadn&#8217;t told anyone.  And there&#8217;ll be another one for December, and for a few more months as well.  It&#8217;s really easy.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of each month, I&#8217;ll pull all the twitter replies I&#8217;ve received over the course of the month and use a custom Perl program to choose one twitter id as winner.  Multiple replies count as one, so don&#8217;t deluge me.  Each winner and family members are excluded from subsequent contests.<\/p>\n<p>Each month&#8217;s winner gets a free Wire Rim Book.  Just go to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrymelton.com\/0\/Webstore.html\">webstore<\/a> and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">email or direct message<\/span> me your selection and mailing address.<\/p>\n<p>And the winner is:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/christinerose\">christinerose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished running the program to determine the winner of November&#8217;s Twitter contest. You didn&#8217;t know there was a contest? Yes, indeed there was, although I hadn&#8217;t told anyone. And there&#8217;ll be another one for December, and for a few more months as well. It&#8217;s really easy. At the end of each month, I&#8217;ll&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/12\/02\/twitter-reply-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter Reply Contest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,235,62],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-E1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}