{"id":2913,"date":"2012-11-25T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2012-12-03T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T03:43:57","slug":"vintage-classics-holiday-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/vintage-classics-holiday-book-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Classics Holiday Book Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have a few copies of the Vintage Classics edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellecooper-writer.com\/montmaray.html\" title=\"Michelle Cooper: A Brief History of Montmaray\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d be happier spending Christmas with someone who&#8217;d appreciate them than sitting by themselves in a dark box in my wardrobe, so I&#8217;m having a holiday book giveaway this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintageclassic-e1341462644205.jpeg\" alt=\"&#039;A Brief History of Montmaray&#039; Vintage Classic edition\" title=\"&#039;A Brief History of Montmaray&#039; Vintage Classic edition\" width=\"450\" height=\"563\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a chance to win one of these three books, leave a comment below telling us about a good read for the holidays. I&#8217;ll leave it up to you to define &#8216;good read&#8217; and &#8216;holidays&#8217;. (As for me, I&#8217;m thinking that if I have some spare reading time these holidays, I&#8217;d like to try the first book of the <em>Mapp and Lucia<\/em> series by E. F. Benson, and maybe <em>Swallows and Amazons<\/em> by Arthur Ransome.)<\/p>\n<p>Conditions of entry:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> This is an international giveaway. Anyone can enter.<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Make sure the email address you enter on the comment form is a valid email account that you check regularly, so I can contact you if you win (no one will be able to see your email address except me, and I won\u2019t show it to anyone else). Please don\u2019t include your real residential or postal address anywhere in the comment. However, it would be nice if you mentioned which country you live in, because I&#8217;m curious about who reads this blog.<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> The three winners will be chosen at random, unless there are three or fewer comments \u2013 in which case, it won\u2019t be random and all will win prizes.<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> This contest and\/or promotion is not sponsored or authorised by Random House Australia. Random House Australia bears no legal liability in connection with this contest and\/or promotion. (My Australian publishers say I have to put this bit in.)<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> Entries close at the end of Saturday, 1st of December, 2012. The winners will be emailed then, and I will send off the winners\u2019 books as soon as possible after that. (Winners <em>should<\/em> receive the books before Christmas, but I can&#8217;t guarantee it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>This giveaway has now closed.<\/strong> The winners can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/holiday-book-giveaway-winners\/\" title=\"Memoranda: Holiday Book Giveaway Winners\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have a few copies of the Vintage Classics edition of A Brief History of Montmaray. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d be happier spending Christmas with someone who&#8217;d appreciate them than sitting by themselves in a dark box in my wardrobe, so I&#8217;m having a holiday book giveaway this week. For a chance to win one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/vintage-classics-holiday-book-giveaway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vintage Classics Holiday Book Giveaway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-montmaray-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}