{"id":1901,"date":"2010-01-17T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:02:31","slug":"the-picky-apple-turns-2-and-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/the-picky-apple-turns-2-and-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Picky Apple Turns 2 and a Giveaway!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, this little blog of mine turns 2!!\u00c2\u00a0 Two years ago today, I started this blog as a food blog with a little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/the-picky-apple-begins-magnolias-vanilla-cupcakes-with-vanilla-buttercream-frosting\/\">post about cupcakes<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I reinvented the blog back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/19\/welcome-to-the-new-picky-apple\/\">September 2009<\/a> to more accurately reflect my life: a little cooking and baking, lots of thoughts on being a mother, activities with The Littlest Apple, making my house a home, and books galore.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t be happier with how my blog has grown!\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe it has been two years already!!\u00c2\u00a0 Writing this blog has been such an amazing experience thus far.\u00c2\u00a0 I am constantly amazed by the generosity and kind souls out there in the blog world.\u00c2\u00a0 I am also humbled by the number of people that read my blog in all its random glory on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder who is reading The Picky Apple.\u00c2\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ve got family reading, and there are some of you that comment on a regular basis.\u00c2\u00a0 But who are the rest of you?\u00c2\u00a0 In honor of my little blog&#8217;s birthday, I&#8217;d love to hear from you!\u00c2\u00a0 I know there are lots of you reading that don&#8217;t usually comment.\u00c2\u00a0 It would absolutely make my day if you could leave a comment to say hello and introduce yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got any questions about me or anything else, I&#8217;d love to hear them!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try my best to answer them in an upcoming post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In honor of my blog&#8217;s birthday, I&#8217;m hosting my first giveaway!!\u00c2\u00a0 If if you leave a comment, you&#8217;ll be entered to <\/strong><strong>win 1 of 2 $25 Amazon gift cards<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 One entry per person.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll select two winners randomly and <strong>announce the winners on Thursday, January 21<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 I look forward to hearing from you, and thanks again for reading The Picky Apple!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/the-picky-apple-turns-2-and-a-giveaway\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, this little blog of mine turns 2!!\u00c2\u00a0 Two years ago today, I started this blog as a food blog with a little post about cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 I reinvented the blog back in September 2009 to more accurately reflect my life: a little cooking and baking, lots of thoughts on being a mother, activities with The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}