{"id":407,"date":"2010-01-21T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-01-21T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:13:00","slug":"show-me-your-love-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/show-me-your-love-giveaway.html","title":{"rendered":"Show Me Your Love + Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christmas has come and gone.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Year&#8217;s Day has come and gone.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And though it&#8217;s hard to believe, my birthday has also come and gone. &nbsp;Thankfully, however, I&#8217;m kind enough to receive late gifts from my birthday wish list &#8212; at no extra charge!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The point is that we&#8217;re moving on. &nbsp;In five days time &#8211; Tuesday, January 26th 2010 &#8211; Verastically Livin&#8217; Blog will be four years old. &nbsp;Four!! &nbsp;Can you believe it? &nbsp;When Verastically Livin&#8217; turned three last year, I gave everyone <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verastic.com\/2009\/01\/i-have-been-verastically-livin-for.html\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">the option of asking me any question<\/span><\/a><\/b> they wanted to, and one week later, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verastic.com\/2009\/02\/honestly-answering.html\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">I answered them all<\/span><\/a><\/b>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, that&#8217;s not going to happen this year. &nbsp;Instead, I&#8217;m going to be doing a giveaway! &nbsp;Yeap, you read right. But before you get overly excited, it&#8217;s just a small giveaway: a book. &nbsp;It&#8217;s Chimamanda&#8217;s book, <i><b>&#8220;The Thing Around Your Neck.&#8221;<\/b><\/i> &nbsp;The post will go up on the 26th on January, and one week, later &#8211; the 2nd of February &#8211; a random commenter will be chosen as the winner.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Show Me Your Love: A Valentine Blog Event<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although I&#8217;ve mentioned this on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/verastic\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com.verastic\/\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/b>, I&#8217;ve not really mentioned it here &#8211; what a shame. &nbsp;This year, Verastically Livin will be having a <i>Valentine Blog Event<\/i>, and the theme is &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; <b><i><span style=\"color: red;\">Show Me Your Love<\/span><\/i><\/b>. &nbsp;Fortunately, all you have to do is &#8211; you guessed it again &#8211; <i>show me your love<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">E-mail pictures of you and the one you&#8217;re in love with to <b><span style=\"color: red;\">project@verastic.com<\/span><\/b>. &nbsp;Include your names, location, what you love about each other, and of course, what you plan to do for Valentine&#8217;s Day. &nbsp;You&#8217;re welcome to include any other information. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Come back at midnight on Valentine&#8217;s Day and see the pictures &#8212; right here on Verastically Livin&#8217;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Deadline for submission: Sunday, February 7th 2010<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><b>P.S.<\/b> Please share this post by tweeting it, facebooking it, or simply e-mailing it. &nbsp;You can click the envelop at the bottom of this post to e-mail it.<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><b>P.P.S.<\/b> Verastically Speakin&#8217; airs on Saturday &#8211; <\/i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/show.aspx?userurl=verastic&amp;year=2010&amp;month=01&amp;day=23&amp;url=romance-without-finance\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>Romance Without Finance<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/b><i>. &nbsp;It&#8217;ll be co-hosted &nbsp;by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ikedot\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ikedot<\/span><\/a><\/b> and <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Itweetnaija\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><i>Nkechinyere<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t forget to vote on this week&#8217;s poll.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas has come and gone. New Year&#8217;s Day has come and gone. And though it&#8217;s hard to believe, my birthday has also come and gone. &nbsp;Thankfully, however, I&#8217;m kind enough to receive late gifts from my birthday wish list &#8212; at no extra charge! 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