{"id":979,"date":"2009-03-11T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=979"},"modified":"2020-11-02T07:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:54:24","slug":"blog-column-contest-ends-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/03\/blog-column-contest-ends-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog, Column Contest Ends Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2009 deadline of a long-running column-writing contest, now open to bloggers, is less than a week away. Entries for the seven categories of the annual contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists<\/a> need to have a postmark — or time-stamp — of Sunday, March 15.<\/p>\n

Five of the categories are traditional: humor and general-interest columns published in either large or small newspapers, with the fifth being for items or “dot-dot-dot” columns. This year the NSNC<\/a> has broadened the online column category to pieces published on any Web site, not just those of newspapers. Blogs have been added for the seventh category. Sample columns must have been published or posted in 2008. Rules and the entry form can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not the usual Brick<\/strong>, eh? I’m just giving a shout-out to folks who might be interested. As a matter of fact, I have submitted a blog and a online-column entry and fees for both. I know I’ll get beat, but I want to lose to the best, and that’s possible only with millions and millions of competitors. Come get me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2009 deadline of a long-running column-writing contest, now open to bloggers, is less than a week away. Entries for the seven categories of the annual contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists need to have a postmark — or time-stamp — of Sunday, March 15. Five of the categories are traditional: humor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-of-words","tag-columnist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2165,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2010\/08\/newspaper-paper-or-plastic\/","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":0},"title":"Newspaper, Paper or Plastic","author":"Ben S. 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