{"id":553,"date":"2009-07-08T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-07-08T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:21:10","slug":"read-my-blog-win-a-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2009\/07\/08\/read-my-blog-win-a-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Read My Blog, Win a Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-559  alignleft\" title=\"winner\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/winner.jpg\" alt=\"winner\" width=\"113\" height=\"92\" \/>Alright Hot Blog on a Stick fans &#8211; the time has come. It&#8217;s contest time. I know thousands of you are faithful readers of the Fair-ey Blogster and fans of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lacountyfair.com\/2009\/\">L.A. County Fair<\/a><\/span>, and I love you all. But just a few tend to send comments. I want to hear from you! So, to encourage a more engaging correspondence online, I am startin&#8217; up the contests! Basically it is read my Blog, win a prize! (What? No! This isn&#8217;t a bribe to get more readers! Sheesh, such pessimists. I am doing this out of the goodness of my heart. And if I happen to get more readers because some people want to win some free stuff, well, fine. Did you know Stephen King stood at a busy intersection giving away his first novel to anyone who passed by? Well, he did! J.K. Rowling did the same at Starbucks with that first Harry Potter.)<br \/>\nNow, of course, not everyone can win (Fair\/Fairplex employees are not eligible to win but I still love you, especially you Blondie). Periodically I will pose a question or quiz here in the Blog; the first to e-mail me the correct answer at <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"mailto:contests@fairplex.com\">contests@fairplex.com<\/a><\/span> will receive a prize. And my bag of goodies is filled with fun stuff, including sweatshirts, tees, stuffed animals and eco-friendly items.<br \/>\nSo, question No. 1: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What are the names of the Fair&#8217;s four mascots and what types of animals are they?<\/span><br \/>\nIf you know the answer, e-mail the Fair-ey Blogster at <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"mailto contests@fairplex.com\">contests@fairplex.com<\/a><\/span>. Besides the correct answer, leave your address so I can mail you your prize! I&#8217;ll post the names of the winners right here.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s prize is this cool brown pull-over hoodie with the L.A County Fair design, modeled by the runway-ready Blondie:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-554 aligncenter\" title=\"img_0083\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_0083.jpg\" alt=\"img_0083\" width=\"274\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, hurry up! Answer the question! Keep reading my Blog for more great Fair inside info and the chance to win more spoils!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright Hot Blog on a Stick fans &#8211; the time has come. It&#8217;s contest time. I know thousands of you are faithful readers of the Fair-ey Blogster and fans of the L.A. County Fair, and I love you all. But just a few tend to send comments. I want to hear from you! So, to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,14],"tags":[225,381,528,614,1075],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-competitions","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-contests","tag-fair-ey-blogster","tag-hot-blog-on-a-stick","tag-la-county-fair","tag-stephen-king"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}