{"id":47,"date":"2012-05-24T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-08-15T02:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T02:41:59","slug":"apparently-im-a-finalist-in-the-redshirts-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/apparently-im-a-finalist-in-the-redshirts-art-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently I&#8217;m a finalist in the Redshirts art contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I haven&#8217;t updated my <a href=\"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/projects\">creative projects<\/a> section in quite a while. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t been working on creative projects. I&#8217;ve just been working on things that I can&#8217;t yet <em>record<\/em>. Some commission art pieces, some writing, oh, and an art contest for John Scalzi&#8217;s upcoming novel <em>Redshirts<\/em>, where &#8211; APPARENTLY &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/05\/24\/the-redshirts-fan-art-contest-finalists-vote-for-your-favorite\/\">I am a finalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7240\/7263710124_4906a693f2.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect to get one of the top three places, which receive some monetary awesomeness, but being a finalist at least nets me an ARC of <em>Redshirts<\/em>, which will be fantastically fantastic, I have to admit.<\/p>\n<p>Now, even though merely being nominated is, absolutely, a HUGE honor in this case, I do implore you, DEAR READER, to head over there and <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/05\/24\/the-redshirts-fan-art-contest-finalists-vote-for-your-favorite\/\">VOTE for my piece<\/a>!\u00a0Ignore how great the other four entries look, and just try to focus on my piece in particular. As of this writing, I&#8217;m currently sitting in fourth place, and while placing as one of the top three would be grand, it isn&#8217;t necessary. Instead I would simply like to avoid LAST, if at all possible, if only to protect my fragile ego.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you would be so kind, please\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/05\/24\/the-redshirts-fan-art-contest-finalists-vote-for-your-favorite\/\">GO FORTH!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I haven&#8217;t updated my creative projects section in quite a while. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t been working on creative projects. I&#8217;ve just been working on things that I can&#8217;t yet record. Some commission art pieces, some writing, oh, and an art contest for John Scalzi&#8217;s upcoming novel Redshirts, where &#8211; APPARENTLY &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[97,84,86,82],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-2012-creative-projects","tag-contest","tag-john-scalzi","tag-redshirts","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}