{"id":2307,"date":"2007-12-02T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2007-12-02T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T20:14:10","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2307\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal competition &#8212; Voting for the People&#8217;s Choice Award is open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baker&#8217;s dozen this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/PeoplesChoice.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vote for the People&#8217;s Choice Award here<\/a>. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. 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Here is this week&#8217;s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees: < [&hellip;]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[21,3,6,5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blog-carnivals","7":"category-blogging","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-the-odysseus-medal","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2013,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2013\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open\/","url_meta":{"origin":2307,"position":0},"title":"The Odysseus Medal competition &#8212; Voting for the People&#8217;s Choice Award is open","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Redfin's financial underbelly, the top-bazillion-bloggers and leftovers from last week's ActiveRain thunderstorm. 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