{"id":1615,"date":"2007-06-21T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/21\/open-minded-blog-award\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:26:57","slug":"open-minded-blog-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/open-minded-blog-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Minded Blog Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply honored to have been awarded an Open Minded Blogger Award by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hells-handmaiden.com\/2007\/06\/20\/open-minded-bloggers-my-five\/\">Hell&#8217;s Handmaiden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/VHopenminded.gif\" alt=\"VirusHead Open Minded Blogger Award\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Open Mind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is defined as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A mind receptive to different opinions and ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This award is given to Blogs that demonstrate respect towards others, research and consideration of opposing views, free-flowing conversation with commenters, and an overall spirit of civility and openness.  It is time we recognize such commendable behavior on the internet.   <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/politicsandreligion.wordpress.com\/open-mind-award\/\">Open Mind Award \u00c2\u00ab Politics &#038; Religion<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This award, like the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/04\/28\/thinking-blogger-award-for-virushead\/\">Thinking Blogger Award<\/a>&#8221; asks the winners to name five others worthy of the award. It&#8217;s a subjective meme that creates a net of civility.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to narrow it down to just five &#8211; I will post with my five nominations soonest. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve placed the award on the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply honored to have been awarded an Open Minded Blogger Award by Hell&#8217;s Handmaiden. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Open Mind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is defined as: &#8220;A mind receptive to different opinions and ideas.&#8221; This award is given to Blogs that demonstrate respect towards others, research and consideration of opposing views, free-flowing conversation with commenters, and an overall spirit of civility and openness. It is time we recognize such commendable behavior on the internet. Open Mind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/open-minded-blog-award\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,3,8,14,27],"tags":[1533,3959,674,3960,6178],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-toys","category-leftovers","category-politics","category-religion","category-virus-related","category-virushead","tag-award","tag-hells-handmaiden","tag-meme","tag-open-minded-blog","tag-virushead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4463,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}