{"id":7,"date":"2007-10-19T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-10-19T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:07:00","slug":"okie-blog-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/okie-blog-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Okie Blog Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/award-oba07unu-768959.gif\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/award-oba07unu-768955.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>A belated but very heartfelt thank you to Mike Hermes at <a href=\"http:\/\/okiedoke.com\/blog\/index.php\">Okiedoke.com<\/a> for the honor of being awarded a <a href=\"http:\/\/okiedoke.com\/ok\/07awards\/oba07.htm\">2007 Okie Blog Award<\/a> for the Best Unusual Blog!  The awards have been presented by Mike and an insightful group since 2005. They were gracious and astute (winners always praise the voters) to nominate the BackyardBirdCam Blog and then select it as this year&#8217;s winner in the &#8220;unusual&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>As many bloggers learn, it&#8217;s often a challenge to keep a blog from getting stale. And I&#8217;m too often guilty of waiting another day&#8230; and another day&#8230; thinking I&#8217;ll take just the right picture and be inspired to write the right article &#8212; the result is  a huge gap between postings. Not how I want it!  So let&#8217;s see if this award &#8212; and my good intentions &#8212; will help me stay motivated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A belated but very heartfelt thank you to Mike Hermes at Okiedoke.com for the honor of being awarded a 2007 Okie Blog Award for the Best Unusual Blog! The awards have been presented by Mike and an insightful group since 2005. They were gracious and astute (winners always praise the voters) to nominate the BackyardBirdCam [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}