{"id":1046,"date":"2009-01-12T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2019-11-03T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:57:22","slug":"voting-and-tweeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/voting-and-tweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting and Tweeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is your last day to vote for me as Best Fashion Blog of 2008. I would be delighted to come in third, but if you happen to have the 10,000 friends required to help me take the lead, you should send that mass email immediately. Polls close at 5 PM ET. That means you won&#8217;t have to read any more campaign speeches! Out of sheer gratitude for that, you should go and vote for me right now.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2008.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-fashion-blog\/\">CLICK HERE TO VOTE RIGHT NOW<\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you need to be reminded of the many reasons you have to vote for me, here are my campaign speeches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/you-know-you-want-me.html\">Campaign speech 1, starring Danny DeVito<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/no-really-you-want-me.html\">Campaign speech 2, starring fish feet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/i-am-fashion-blogger-of-people.html\">Campaign speech 3, starring Tip O&#8217;Neill<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/asked-and-answered-again.html\">Campaign speech 4, starring Lorraine Bracco<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My campaign platform? Freedom from <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/asked-and-answered-also-vote.html\">fashion-police terrorism<\/a> so you can all Wear What You Want. Also, drinks on the house!<\/p>\n<p>Remember, if you post or tweet about me, let me know so I can thank you properly with a link back.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, gorgeous blogger and campaign volunteer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicandcharming.com\/2009\/01\/darlings-go-vote-for-wendy.html\">Chic and Charming<\/a> scolded me for not officially announcing that I was on Twitter. I slyly inserted a Twitter link on the right side of this blog, but I didn&#8217;t make a fuss about it because my tweets primarily consist of:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2008.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-fashion-blog\/\">Vote for me<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\">Buy my jewelry.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambiencr.com\/\">I can&#8217;t sleep<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SWv8huiUD3I\/AAAAAAAAG9E\/JhITsoiobpU\/s1600-h\/abevigoda.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290599843634614130\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SWv8huiUD3I\/AAAAAAAAG9E\/JhITsoiobpU\/s320\/abevigoda.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is a totally random picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001820\/\">Abe Vigoda<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">My tweet topics will be down to two after voting closes tonight. Anyway, Chic and Charming is an important member of my constituency. (I care about your opinions, unlike other bloggers who are too famous to give you the time of day!) So to make her happy, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wendybrandes\">here I am on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Thanks to gorgeous bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/observationmode.blogspot.com\/\">ENC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/quoththeraven.wordpress.com\/\">QuoththeRaven<\/a> for tweeting me.  And gorgeous client Melissa insists that I remind you of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/winner-of-nienie-auction.html\">NieNie auction<\/a>, in which you all helped me raised money to help a fellow blogger in need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>UPDATED AGAIN TO ADD: Voting is over! Thanks for playing. Results are official Thursday, so you&#8217;ll hear from me then but in the meantime, you can celebrate the end of the campaigning. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is your last day to vote for me as Best Fashion Blog of 2008. I would be delighted to come in third, but if you happen to have the 10,000 friends required to help me take the lead, you should send that mass email immediately. Polls close at 5 PM ET. That means you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/voting-and-tweeting\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","7":"category-wear-what-you-want","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43996,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/43996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}