{"id":1359,"date":"2006-09-28T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/two-blog-award-plugs\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T08:57:14","slug":"two-blog-award-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/two-blog-award-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two blog award plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Mick Fealty is up for an award for his superb Northern Irish politics blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggerotoole.com\/\">Slugger O&#8217;Toole<\/a> &#8211; which if you don&#8217;t read already you really should. Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggerotoole.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/dont_forget_to_vote_slugger\/\">a few reasons<\/a> why he deserves to be voted one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsonline.com\/content\/main\/specialreports\/2006\/top10_2006\/vote.asp\">The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics<\/a> (and yes, encouraging and enabling civil and peaceful trans-sectarian participation and debate is indeed high on the list).<\/p>\n<p>Second, I&#8217;ve had en email from the chaps at Deutsche Welle asking for a plug for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebobs.com\/\">The Bobs<\/a>, their 3rd annual international weblog awards, as I somehow managed to be a finalist in the English blog section back in 2004. Having had a quick skim over the entries, I recognised practically none of the English blog names at all &#8211; sod the fact that no one&#8217;s seen fit to nominate me, so poorly publicised has this thing been on this side of the Channel that no one&#8217;s put up <a href=\"http:\/\/5thnovember.blogspot.com\/\">Guido<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaindale.blogspot.com\/\">Iain Dale<\/a> either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only three days left to nominate, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebobs.com\/index.php?l=en&#038;s=1154375403464680BHBWLIZB-NONE\">get over there<\/a> and rectify the situation, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Mick Fealty is up for an award for his superb Northern Irish politics blog Slugger O&#8217;Toole &#8211; which if you don&#8217;t read already you really should. Here are a few reasons why he deserves to be voted one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/two-blog-award-plugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}