{"id":240,"date":"2008-01-22T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2008\/01\/the-nominations-are-in\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T13:11:00","slug":"nominations-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The Nominations Are In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/help-us.html\">submitted nominations<\/a> for our next Cage Match debate topic. (If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the concept, check out the first one <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/cage-match-1-omega-unknown-2007.html\">here<\/a>.) Over the weekend, we whittled your suggestions down to ten possibilities, and have now put a poll up in the sidebar. Please vote for your favorite argument-starter. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be too devastated if your horse doesn&#8217;t win, by the way; these are all good choices, and if we keep doing Cage Matches, many of these (as well as some nominations that didn&#8217;t quite make it this time around) will more than likely return for later rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the dragged-out, too-many-early-primaries nature of this process. We&#8217;re still experimenting, but next time around this will be a streamlined super-train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations for our next Cage Match debate topic. (If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the concept, check out the first one here.) Over the weekend, we whittled your suggestions down to ten possibilities, and have now put a poll up in the sidebar. Please vote for your favorite argument-starter. Don&#8217;t be too devastated if your horse doesn&#8217;t win, by the way; these are all good choices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,1048],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cage-match","tag-polls"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}