{"id":376,"date":"2010-12-10T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T02:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-12-10T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T02:13:21","slug":"massachusetts-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, I entered ten images in a photo contest sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dfwele\/dfw\/publications\/mwmag\/mwmag_home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Wildlife<\/a> magazine, a quarterly publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dfwele\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had pretty much forgotten about the contest and my entry. However, I was pleasantly reminded about it when I recently received email informing me that four of my photos have been given awards!<\/p>\n<p>According to the email from Peter Mirick,\u00a0 the editor, there were &#8220;1,137  entries received from 183 individuals living in 149 cities and towns,  some  as far away as Florida and Arizona.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No large cash prizes! Just a subscription to the magazine and a few extra copies of the\u00a0 issue in which the images will be published.\u00a0 However, it is nice to have ones work recognized this way.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the four images that were selected:<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=38]<\/p>\n<p>And here are the other entries:<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=37]<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for &#8220;wandering by&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, I entered ten images in a photo contest sponsored by Massachusetts Wildlife magazine, a quarterly publication of Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. I had pretty much forgotten about the contest and my entry. However, I was pleasantly reminded about it when I recently received email informing me that four of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,4,24,5,28,14,25,3],"tags":[155,156,154,12,11,16,44,18,17,19,15,42],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians","category-audubon-sanctuaries","category-birds","category-carvers-pond","category-odontates","category-other-insects","category-southeastern-ma","category-the-yard","category-wildlife","tag-ants","tag-aphids","tag-birds","tag-dragonflies","tag-fiddler-crabs","tag-frogs","tag-macro","tag-mallard","tag-osprey","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-turtles","tag-wild-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}