{"id":1756,"date":"2007-09-23T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T14:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/23\/picture-contest-winner\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T14:19:29","slug":"picture-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/23\/picture-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/shashin_o_senmai_torimashita.php\">proposed a contest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The person who comes closest to the actual number [of pictures taken in Japan] without going over will win something cheap and tacky from Japan that I will buy before I leave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t fogotten about this, I&#8217;ve just been too busy to do all that much with the pictures. But we do have a winner, of this priceless artifact:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2777531d3ecfd9f938d1f2dea348c93a-glowing_buddha.jpg\" alt=\"i-2777531d3ecfd9f938d1f2dea348c93a-glowing_buddha.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The total number of pictures I took on the trip was 1,508 (or, at least, that&#8217;s the total number I ended up with&#8211; I distinctly remember taking some pictures at one temple in northwest Kyoto, but they&#8217;re not on either of the memory cards I used, which is exceedingly annoying). The winner of the contest is frequent commenter &#8220;cisko,&#8221; who had a good and nerdy reason for choosing his guess:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1499.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect your rate will go down considerably when you start the con, since you&#8217;ll be more of a participant and less of a tourist.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to guess 1500, but decided to go with the closest prime instead&#8230; and that&#8217;s a cute one anyway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations, cisko. Email me (orzelc at steelypips dot org) with a mailing address, and I&#8217;ll send you your glow-in-the-dark Great Buddha keychain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I proposed a contest: The person who comes closest to the actual number [of pictures taken in Japan] without going over will win something cheap and tacky from Japan that I will buy before I leave. I haven&#8217;t fogotten about this, I&#8217;ve just been too busy to do all that much with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/23\/picture-contest-winner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picture Contest Winner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}