{"id":1250,"date":"2009-09-19T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2009-09-19T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T16:39:31","slug":"rejected-out-of-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Rejected out of hand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it amusing that after I submitted my sites to the <a href=\"http:\/\/awards.ie\/webawards\/social-media-campaign-award\/\"> Social Media Award section of The Irish Web Awards<\/a> none of them has even been visited. Rejected before even viewing them.  That either is an indication, that your efforts are not worthy of examination, or that you are not acceptable. While none of my sites has &#8216;hit the big time&#8217; it&#8217;s not a precursor to exclusion. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ideaforecasting.com\/\"> Idea Forecasting<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ideaforecasting\">@ideaforecasting<\/a> on Twitter) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/query-the.net\/\"> Querynet<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/querynet\">@querynet<\/a> on Twitter)  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fleetingthoght.com\/\"> Fleeting Thoughts<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fleetthoughts\">@fleetthoughts<\/a> on Twitter)  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it amusing that after I submitted my sites to the Social Media Award section of The Irish Web Awards none of them has even been visited. Rejected before even viewing them. That either is an indication, that your<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1250\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rejected out of hand!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,220,263,249,13,55,266,32,206],"tags":[287,288],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-diy-server","category-fleeting-thoughts","category-idea-forecasting","category-ireland","category-irishblogs","category-query-the-net","category-social-networks","category-twitter","tag-irish-web-award","tag-social-media-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}