{"id":830,"date":"2008-12-23T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2015-02-19T22:56:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:56:29","slug":"simply-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/simply-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Young at Confident Writing is sponsoring a group writing project ending Christmas Eve called Simply the Best.\u00a0 The goal is for each blogger to scour their posts over the past year and identify the one post that they believe is their best writing of the year.\u00a0 Then, write a post that links to that best post and completes the sentence &#8220;This post is simply the best because&#8230;&#8221; in 30 words or less.<\/p>\n<p>This is not as easy as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>For this challenge I have selected my post &#8220;<a title=\"My Mothers Gift\" href=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=195\">My Mother&#8217;s Gift<\/a>,&#8221; which was my Mother&#8217;s Day post this year. Have you read it yet?<\/p>\n<p>This post is simply the best because I was able to be candid about my family, its an unusual and interesting story, and I was able to touch just the right emotional notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/pnw-highland-games-2009\/bird-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8240\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8240\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/pnw-highland-games-2009\/bird-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?fit=640%2C457\" data-orig-size=\"640,457\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bird-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?fit=640%2C457\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?resize=300%2C214\" alt=\"bird-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?resize=300%2C214 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?resize=106%2C75 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-1.png?resize=82%2C57 82w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; The goal is for each blogger to scour their posts over the past year and identify the one post that they believe is their best writing of the year.  Then, write a post about that best post with a link to it and complete the sentence &#8220;This post is simply the best because&#8230;&#8221; in 30 words or less. 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