{"id":503,"date":"2010-08-04T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-08-04T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:40:20","slug":"for_the_win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/08\/for_the_win\/","title":{"rendered":"For the win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highly-anticipated <i>Life&#8217;s a Pitch <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/08\/im-too-busy-rolling-my-eyes-dr.html\">El\u012bna Garan\u010da Harlequin Novel Title Competition<\/a> has come to a close. Potential novel titles for her Deutsche Grammophon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXs2VAfy4ew&amp;feature=player_embedded\"><i>Habanera <\/i>promo video<\/a> included <i>Oh My God My Eyeballs Hurt from the Sheer Awfulness<\/i>, <i>Spanish Extensions: A Tale Of Love Gone Wrong With Barcelona&#8217;s Bull Fighting Hair Dresser<\/i>, <i>Mascara Fandango,<\/i> and <i>Stabled Stallion, Wanton Rider<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The winner though, was Holly, who submitted the following:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fabio.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Fabio.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"424\" width=\"300\" \/>The winner of the side competition&#8211;has there ever been a good classical music video&#8211;is Rik, who submitted &#8220;any classical video by the Muppets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ob6TTU1knUM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ob6TTU1knUM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Can we talk about how Gonzo breaks the fourth wall here? <\/p>\n<p>Holly and Rik, your prize can be a signed CD by the artist of mine of your choosing or homemade brownies. Winner&#8217;s Choice. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly-anticipated Life&#8217;s a Pitch El\u012bna Garan\u010da Harlequin Novel Title Competition has come to a close. Potential novel titles for her Deutsche Grammophon Habanera promo video included Oh My God My Eyeballs Hurt from the Sheer Awfulness, Spanish Extensions: A Tale Of Love Gone Wrong With Barcelona&#8217;s Bull Fighting Hair Dresser, Mascara Fandango, and Stabled [&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-503","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\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}