{"id":156,"date":"2008-12-10T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:35:29","slug":"best_of_2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/12\/best_of_2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that special time of year: you can&#8217;t swing a dead cat without hitting a &#8220;Best of&#8221; something. So let&#8217;s add to it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/01\/contact-me.html\">E mail me<\/a> with your nominations for the following in classical music and opera:<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Marketing Campaign <\/b>(describe)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Publicity Pitch<\/b> (describe)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Feature Story<\/b> (please include link)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Review<\/b> (please include link)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Artist Interview<\/b> (link, if applicable, or describe if coming from a journalist) <\/p>\n<p><b>Best Album Art<\/b> (link or jpeg)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Advertisement <\/b>(please include screenshot, scan or jpeg)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best <i>New<\/i> Music Blog<\/b> (that would be &#8220;new&#8221; as in, new in 2008, not &#8220;new music&#8221; as in, contemporary classical music)<\/p>\n<p><b>Overall Best Moment in Publicity and Marketing in 2008<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nominate yourself\/your artist\/your organization, I don&#8217;t care. We&#8217;ll do &#8220;official&#8221; voting throughout the month and the winners will be UNVEILED in January!<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what to do about prizes. I will think about it. <\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n<p><i>Update &#8211; 12\/11, 10 amish: a new category has been suggested, and I am adding it:<br \/><\/i><br \/><b>Best Overall Performing Arts Coverage in a Blog or Newspaper<\/p>\n<p><\/b><i>Much as I know you all desperately want to, you cannot vote for this blog! <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that special time of year: you can&#8217;t swing a dead cat without hitting a &#8220;Best of&#8221; something. So let&#8217;s add to it! E mail me with your nominations for the following in classical music and opera: Best Marketing Campaign (describe) Best Publicity Pitch (describe) Best Feature Story (please include link) Best Review (please include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}