{"id":4466,"date":"2012-04-27T14:14:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T06:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2012-04-27T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T06:14:29","slug":"the-singapore-were-not-the-usual-blog-awards-2012-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/the-singapore-were-not-the-usual-blog-awards-2012-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Singapore We&#8217;re Not The Usual Blog Awards 2012 &#8211; Categories!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/notusual.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4467\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/the-singapore-were-not-the-usual-blog-awards-2012-categories\/notusual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/notusual.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Singapore We&amp;#8217;re Not The Usual Blog Awards 2012!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/notusual.jpg\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4467\" title=\"Singapore We're Not The Usual Blog Awards 2012!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/notusual.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/notusual.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/notusual-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok so there&#8217;s this yearly blog awards that&#8217;s happening right now and a lot of people on twitter and such have pretty much said that they don&#8217;t fit in any categories (including me).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always the usual foodie\/lifestyle\/fashion whatever blogs. Surely there&#8217;s <strong>more<\/strong> blogs than that! If it were only that, I&#8217;d be totally bored. So I decided to do this.<\/p>\n<p>No prizes since this would the first time trying this out. Unless by the middle of this whole experimental thing, people start to donate prizes and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see then. However, with all the listings, we&#8217;ll finally learn more blogs than the usual ones we see in the news\/media\/linked to us. So that would be pretty neat, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>For now, here are the deadlines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Categories submission<\/strong>: 27 April &#8211; 11 May<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nomination of blogs<\/strong>: 18 May &#8211; 8 June<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voting of blogs<\/strong>: 22 June &#8211; 22 July<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alright, now I need <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>YOUR<\/strong><\/span> help! I have planned down some categories but I know I might be missing out some, click on read more to see and also COMMENT with your suggestions!<\/p>\n<p>The categories will then be finalized for the nomination of blogs on 18 May.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Categories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heritage\/History<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Academic<\/strong> &#8211; (subcategories: Study tips\/student life\/teacher life\/etc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non-profit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal<\/strong> (blogs written by animals eg. <a href=\"http:\/\/dukeorange.posterous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Orange<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sports<\/strong> &#8211; (subcategories: urban biking\/fitness\/running\/etc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Science<\/strong> &#8211; (subcategories: environmental\/ nature\/ research\/etc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arts<\/strong> &#8211; (subcategories: DIY Crafts\/ Culture\/ Writing\/ Illustration\/ Photography\/ etc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pop Culture<\/strong> (subcategories: Comics or Manga\/ Movies\/ Reviews\/ Books\/ Games\/ Utter Overall Geek\/ Subcultures\/ Cosplay)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You Did What?<\/strong> (blogs where the writer undergoes something unbelievable or not the usual eg. for good or for worse like quitting a high flying job to travel the world or cooking a recipe a day from some antique book etc)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chapalang<\/strong> (it doesn&#8217;t fit the usual blog awards but you think it should win something for some reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think of the categories above? Yes\/No? What else should be there? Some subcategories might be merged into the main category during nomination if there&#8217;s &#8220;not enough&#8221; in that particular specialty.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and of course, there&#8217;ll be a prettier banner and stuff by nomination time. COMMENT BELOW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so there&#8217;s this yearly blog awards that&#8217;s happening right now and a lot of people on twitter and such have pretty much said that they don&#8217;t fit in any categories (including me). It&#8217;s always the usual foodie\/lifestyle\/fashion whatever blogs. Surely there&#8217;s more blogs than that! If it were only that, I&#8217;d be totally bored. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/the-singapore-were-not-the-usual-blog-awards-2012-categories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Singapore We&#8217;re Not The Usual Blog Awards 2012 &#8211; Categories!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[22],"tags":[35,36],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","tag-competition","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-1a2","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}