{"id":5637,"date":"2011-02-18T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:49:12","slug":"on-sweetening-the-farpoint-rewards-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"On Sweetening the Farpoint Rewards Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"306\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/previews-apr2009.jpg\" alt=\"previews-apr2009\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29855\" \/>Author extraordinare Dayton Ward can&#8217;t be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farpointcon.com\">Farpoint<\/a> convention this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He does, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/daytonward.livejournal.com\/640373.html\">have a mission for congoers<\/a> attending.  One that, to some small degree, involves me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let Dayton explain fully, but here&#8217;s the gist.  There are certain authors, myself among them, that he wants pictures taken of with a sign that reads &#8220;Dayton Made Me Do This.&#8221;  And, those who send Dayton their author pictures can win stuff!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to sweeten the rewards pot just a little.<\/p>\n<p>If someone gets my picture with Dayton&#8217;s sign printed up in Comic Sans, the absolute <i>worst<\/i> font of all time, they can win a copy of the April 2009 Diamond <i>Previews<\/i> (cover: <i>Batman and Robin<\/i> #1), with my article &#8220;What Would William Shatner Do?&#8221; autographed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take names and draw one randomly. Prize can be picked up at Shore Leave in July or mailed.<\/p>\n<p>Get busy!  Print out those signs!  They&#8217;ll be useful the whole weekend long!<\/p>\n<p>See some of you this weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author extraordinare Dayton Ward can&#8217;t be at the Farpoint convention this weekend. He does, however, have a mission for congoers attending. One that, to some small degree, involves me. I&#8217;ll let Dayton explain fully, but here&#8217;s the gist. There are certain authors, myself among them, that he wants pictures taken of with a sign that<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5637\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Sweetening the Farpoint Rewards Pot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[51,116,670,4102],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-fandom","tag-farpoint","tag-william-shatner","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}