{"id":68,"date":"2006-08-23T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2006-08-23T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T22:38:08","slug":"and-what-do-points-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/and-what-do-points-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"And what do points mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, for the first time, there&#8217;s going to be a competition for the &#8216;<strong>Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year<\/strong>&#8216; at conference.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/news\/blog-of-the-year-nominations.html\">online entry form on the federal party site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The party has declared an interesting criterion: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the blog that has done the most to promote liberalism in the last year<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not necessarily the same as &#8216;the most entertaining&#8217; or &#8216;the blog you go to first&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, combined with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexfoster.me.uk\/2006\/08\/23\/ldbbmx2\/\">the various bloggers&#8217; parties planned for conference<\/a>, suggest an encouraging increase in the party&#8217;s engagement with the blogosphere. <\/p>\n<p>I probably will post here when I&#8217;ve decided how to vote, but first I am going to go and reread the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdemblogs.co.uk\/\">archive of Lib Dem blogs<\/a> and see which posts, if any, made it into <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/mpntod\">my del.icio.us tags<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, for the first time, there&#8217;s going to be a competition for the &#8216;Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year&#8216; at conference. There&#8217;s an online entry form on the federal party site. The party has declared an interesting criterion: the blog that has done the most to promote liberalism in the last year Not necessarily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/and-what-do-points-mean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And what do points mean?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-of-the-year","category-blogs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}