{"id":3595,"date":"2013-01-29T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2013-01-29T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:30:01","slug":"vote-for-me-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/29\/vote-for-me-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Me! Please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/musoscribe_ignite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"160\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I started this whole music journo writing gig many years ago, part of my motivation was to build some \u201cstreet cred\u201d that I could leverage when proposing one of a few book ideas I have rolling around in my head. It never occurred to me that I might (even on rare occasions) stand up in front of a crowd and talk about this stuff. But thanks to the encouragement of a dear friend, last year (February 2012) I did just that: I gave a what&#8217;s called an <strong>Ignite Talk<\/strong>. And I enjoyed it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s last year&#8217;s talk. Me? Nervous? Nah.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b6XulHa1B1c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed it so much so that I actually applied to <strong>do another one this year<\/strong>. And I&#8217;ve been selected as a finalist. But the final decision as to which speakers (ten, chosen from about 35) get the gig&#8230;well,<strong> that&#8217;s up to you<\/strong>. You needn&#8217;t be able to show up for the actual event (though that&#8217;d be cool, and I might even buy you a drink if you did), but if you enjoy my writing at all, <strong>voting for me<\/strong> would be a quick, painless and immensely appreciated way for you to show me some encouragement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/vote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"477\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voting takes only a moment, and you can (but don&#8217;t have to) vote for several entries. My proposed talk has to do with one of my book ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/igniteavl.org\/vote\"><strong>This link will take you to the voting page<\/strong><\/a>. The deadline is in only a few days. It would mean a heckuva lot to me if you&#8217;d go to the page, fill out the form, and cast your vote for <strong>Bill Kopp<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cThe Greatest Music You&#8217;ve Never Heard in Your Life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Count on me reminding you again, but please vote now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><a href=\"http:\/\/igniteavl.org\/vote\">http:\/\/igniteavl.org\/vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"CENTER\"><strong>Update: No rare personal appearance for me this go-round. I didn&#8217;t make the cut. But I&#8217;ll continue to have plenty to say here online.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started this whole music journo writing gig many years ago, part of my motivation was to build some \u201cstreet cred\u201d that I could leverage when proposing one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","cat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}