{"id":7224,"date":"2008-07-02T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/07\/02\/pay-it-forward-contest\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:56:05","slug":"pay-it-forward-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/07\/02\/pay-it-forward-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay it Forward Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am entering my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/2008\/06\/30\/group-effort-its-time\/\">Group Effort Pay it Forward Contest<\/a>. That is, I am running a Pay it Forward contest on this Baby Names site, and it is a separate contest from the one you can also enter at the Swistle site.<\/p>\n<p>The complete and overly-exhaustive rules are over through that link, but the basic idea is that to enter this contest, you leave a comment on this blog before noon on Friday July 4th, U.S. Pacific Time. If you win, I send you a prize. When you get the prize, you run a Pay it Forward contest on your own blog. If you don&#8217;t have a blog, I will choose a second commenter, and that will be the winner of your Pay it Forward contest.<\/p>\n<p>The prize for the Baby Names Pay it Forward will be a copy of Laura Wattenberg&#8217;s excellent baby name book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0767917529\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>. If this isn&#8217;t a prize you&#8217;re interested in, don&#8217;t despair! Go over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/2008\/06\/30\/group-effort-its-time\/\">the list of other participants<\/a>&#8212;there&#8217;s sure to be a prize or two in there you&#8217;re interested in winning.<\/p>\n<p>The comment can be anything (&#8220;Me me me!&#8221; &#8220;You are SO RAVISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL!&#8221; &#8220;I am entering&#8221;), but if you feel tongue-tied, why not leave the most unusual baby name you&#8217;ve ever encountered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am entering my own Group Effort Pay it Forward Contest. That is, I am running a Pay it Forward contest on this Baby Names site, and it is a separate contest from the one you can also enter at the Swistle site. The complete and overly-exhaustive rules are over through that link, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Sw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10316,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/10316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}