{"id":265,"date":"2002-09-26T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-26T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2002\/09\/26\/265\/"},"modified":"2002-09-26T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-26T08:50:00","slug":"265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/265","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> Guardian competition: Best Britist Blog. And the winner is .. ..  <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian held a competition to find the Best Britist Blog.  The winners have just been announced.  I entered, but wasn&#8217;t one of them &#8230;. He ho. No \u00a31000 for me. This was <a href=\"http:\/\/tash_lodge.blogspot.com\/2002_09_01_tash_lodge_archive.html#81159820\">My entry Details<\/a>, made, back on the 4th September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/weblog\/bestbritishblog\/\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/weblog\/bestbritishblog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/weblog\/bestbritishblog\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/site_furniture\/2002\/07\/17\/best_blog_128.gif?w=640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the winner is .. ..<br \/>\n<br \/>The duck of the draw <\/p>\n<p><b>Simon Waldman reveals who has won Guardian Unlimited&#8217;s Best British blog competition<br \/>\n<br \/>Thursday September 26, 2002<br \/>\n<br \/>The Guardian<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>And the winner is&#8230; a duck. <a href=\"http:\/\/scaryduck.blogspot.com\/\">A Scary Duck <\/a>to be precise: Alistair Coleman&#8217;s witty, irreverent blog has beaten 300 rivals to take the title of Best British Blog 2002 and claim the prize of \u00a31,000.<br \/>\n<br \/>His blog features intelligent, confessional and entertaining rambles on everything from September 11, nuclear war and football hooliganism to the latest antics of a local dolphin nicknamed Randy. <\/p>\n<p>It impressed the judges with its originality and personality: one described it as: &#8220;magnificent &#8211; well-written, focused and insightful&#8221;. Another said: &#8220;The best writer of the bunch, the content is excellent.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/story\/0,3605,798749,00.html\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/story\/0,3605,798749,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sitelogos\/Guardian.gif?w=640\"><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian competition: Best Britist Blog. And the winner is .. .. The Guardian held a competition to find the Best Britist Blog. The winners have just been announced. I entered, but wasn&#8217;t one of them &#8230;. He ho. No \u00a31000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}