{"id":8951,"date":"2013-02-28T14:47:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:54:28","slug":"the-liebster-award-blogathon-2828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8951","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 28\/13 The Liebster Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8956\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8956\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/liebster.jpg\" alt=\"liebster\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>It just seemed right to save this post for the last day of the blogathon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;The Liebster Award is for bloggers with fewer than 300 followers. A blogger nominates 11 fellow bloggers and asks them a set of 11 questions. The rules state that a nominee must link back to the blogger from whom they received a nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>write 11 random facts about themselves<\/li>\n<li>answer the 11 questions which have been set for them<\/li>\n<li>nominate another 11 bloggers and<\/li>\n<li>pose 11 questions to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a really fun way to discover and connect with new bloggers and help us all gain some new followers along the way.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One month and a day ago (29th January 2013) <a title=\"The Liebster Award from Chloe\" href=\"http:\/\/chloeaspencer.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/29\/the-liebster-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">the lovely Chloe listed me for this eleven-based meme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven random facts about me\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. As a schoolboy, I broke my ankle and didn&#8217;t know it<br \/>\n2. I was brought up as a Roman Catholic (we were not a Catholic family)<br \/>\n3. When I was six I convinced myself I had developed x-ray vision because I could see through the side of a plastic bucket in bright daylight<br \/>\n4. I taught myself to row and sail<br \/>\n5. I&#8217;ve had cosmetic surgery (teeth implants)<br \/>\n6. I can&#8217;t dance for toffee, but I dance daily (usually in the privacy of my own home)<br \/>\n7. There are currently 3,379 unread emails in my inbox<br \/>\n8. Chrissie Hynde threw a glass of wine at me<br \/>\n9. Three of my last four horses have been ex-racehorses<br \/>\n10. I am addicted to chocolate<br \/>\n11. I am allergic to\u00a0penicillin<\/p>\n<p>So here are Chloe&#8217;s questions and my answers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. What inspires you to get out of bed in the morning?<br \/>\nBreakfast! Or the toilet! You choose!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. When you were young, where did you think you\u2019d be when you hit 30?<br \/>\nIn Wales. A policeman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">3. What\u2019s the biggest challenge you\u2019ve ever conquered?<br \/>\nGetting back on to two legs after a horrendous horsefall, (11 months of daily physiotherapy, five operations and six months on crutches).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">4. If you were stranded on a desert island (in a climate of your choice), would you be able to pick a person you\u2019d like to be with or would you rather be alone?<br \/>\nI can easily pick a person I would like to be with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">5. On this theoretical desert island, what is the most useful thing you own that you would want with you?<br \/>\nA hunting knife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">6. If you could change one thing in the world today, what would it be?<br \/>\nI would banish all religions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">7. Do you secretly wish magic existed?<br \/>\nWhat? Wait! Magic doesn&#8217;t exist?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">8. Do you believe your star sign and Chinese Horoscope sign tell the truth about you?<br \/>\nNo, I am more complex than these things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">9. Which novel changed the way you think about life?<br \/>\nGlory Road (Heinlein). Or Swallows And Amazons (Ransome). One of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">10. Have you ever taught someone to do something until they were better than you at it?<br \/>\nYes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">11. If you could do any job you wanted, what would it be?<br \/>\nHelicopter pilot in the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>And so to my nominations. I have decided to pick from my Google Reader list, rather than confine my choices to my blogroll. I&#8217;m doing this to add new to old, add sparkle to rich sheen, add wit to wisdom (that&#8217;s enough adding, Ed). And the (un)lucky eleven nominees are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. <a title=\"Blogging Up The Works\" href=\"http:\/\/uptheworks.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging Up The Works<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a title=\"ApplesCrapples\" href=\"http:\/\/www.applescrapples.co.uk\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">ApplesCrapples<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a title=\"Masher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masher.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Masher<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a title=\"Armstead Archaeology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armstead-archaeology.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armstead Archaeology<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a title=\"The Day After Yesterday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedayafteryesterday.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Day After Yesterday<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a title=\"Mild Rantings\" href=\"http:\/\/mildrantings.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mild Rantings<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a title=\"Narcisstics Anonymous\" href=\"http:\/\/whostolemyurl.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Narcisstics Anonymous<\/a><br \/>\n8. <a title=\"Yasmin\" href=\"http:\/\/yasminselenabutt.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yasmin Selena<\/a><br \/>\n9. <a title=\"Move It Lard Arse\" href=\"http:\/\/moveitlardarse.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Move It Lard Arse<\/a><br \/>\n10. <a title=\"Yurt16\" href=\"http:\/\/yurt16.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yurt16<\/a><br \/>\n11. <a title=\"Dusting Myself Off\" href=\"http:\/\/scabbyknees.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dusting Myself Off<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the eleven questions for this diverse range of blog writerists are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. If you didn&#8217;t know your age, how old would you say you are?<br \/>\n2. Who is the\u00a0single-most\u00a0influential person in your life?<br \/>\n3. What was the first album you bought?<br \/>\n4. What one thing would you tell your eleven-year-old self, if you could?<br \/>\n5. The best thing you&#8217;ve ever done is?<br \/>\n6. And the most idiotic thing you&#8217;ve ever done was?<br \/>\n7. The most amazing thing humanity has achieved is?<br \/>\n8. Which historical event moves you\/captures your imagination most?<br \/>\n9. If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, do what (and why do you think this)?<br \/>\n10. What one thing annoys you beyond measure?<br \/>\n11. What one thing relaxes you more than others?<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, happy reading, on your marks, get set, blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It just seemed right to save this post for the last day of the blogathon &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8216;The Liebster Award is for bloggers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}