{"id":843,"date":"2008-01-24T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/24\/everyone-likes-essay-contests\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:05:03","slug":"everyone-likes-essay-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/24\/everyone-likes-essay-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Likes Essay Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shack News is running an essay contest in which you have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/50915\">write about your favorite civilization<\/a>. I guess it&#8217;s part of a promo for the upcoming Civilization: Revolution. (I suppose I could have contests, but I&#8217;m lazy and cheap. Nobody gives me stuff to award as prizes, but then I don&#8217;t ask either. Because I&#8217;m lazy.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Give a short description of the civilization, who the leader is and their traits, and what is their favored military unit and building. You can see examples from Civilization 4 at CivFanatics and no more than a paragraph or two per element please.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fictional civilizations are OK, so go ahead and wax poetical about why Minbari kick ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shack News is running an essay contest in which you have to write about your favorite civilization. I guess it&#8217;s part of a promo for the upcoming Civilization: Revolution. (I suppose I could have contests, but I&#8217;m lazy and cheap. Nobody gives me stuff to award as prizes, but then I don&#8217;t ask either. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}