{"id":439,"date":"2009-01-09T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/09\/lp-travel-blogger-awards\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T10:16:00","slug":"lp-travel-blogger-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/lp-travel-blogger-awards.html","title":{"rendered":"LP Travel Blogger Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lonlely Planet is giving out <a href=\"http:\/\/lplabs.com\/2009\/01\/06\/nominations\/\">Travel Blogger Awards<\/a> this year in ten categories. I saw the news and thought, let&#8217;s pitch some Indian blogs, which have all the required qualities but usually don&#8217;t get there simply because we would not know of the award program. I walked through my feed reader, picked a bunch of travel blogs and have nominated for the award. <\/p>\n<p>The procedure involves initial round of nominations by public(which will not be disclosed), and then 5 blogs in each category with top nominations will be opened for public voting. Let&#8217;s all work to nominate a few Indian Blogs, so we will have some of them in the final list. <\/p>\n<p>I have made many nominations, and of all of them, strongly feel that <a href=\"http:\/\/clubmahindrablog.com\/\">clay<\/a>, an excellent compilation of travel information and stories by various authors, managed by <a href=\"http:\/\/backpakker.blogspot.com\/\">Lakshmi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianeye.org\/\">Arun<\/a> deserves to be there on the top. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Go <a href=\"http:\/\/lplabs.com\/2009\/01\/06\/nominations\/\">here<\/a> and submit your nominations now<\/span> and spread the word yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Also see: Best Travel Blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/2008.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-travel-blog\/\">nominations<\/a> for 2008 weblog awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonlely Planet is giving out Travel Blogger Awards this year in ten categories. I saw the news and thought, let&#8217;s pitch some Indian blogs, which have all the required qualities but usually don&#8217;t get there simply because we would not know of the award program. I walked through my feed reader, picked a bunch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-75","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}