{"id":612687,"date":"2009-12-21T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/the-homies-2009-starts-tomorrow-discovering-sharing-honoring-the-best-in-home-blogs-104662"},"modified":"2009-12-21T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:00:54","slug":"the-homies-2009-starts-tomorrow-discovering-sharing-honoring-the-best-in-home-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612687","title":{"rendered":"The Homies 2009:  Starts Tomorrow!  Discovering, Sharing &amp; Honoring the Best in Home Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/the-homies-2009-starts-tomorrow-discovering-sharing-honoring-the-best-in-home-blogs-104662\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"homiesfinalheader.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/uimages\/ny\/homiesfinalheader.jpg?resize=540%2C149\" width=\"540\" height=\"149\" class=\"mt-image-center\" \/><\/a><big><strong>>> <a href=\"http:\/\/homies.apartmenttherapy.com\/2009\/\">Homies Main Page<\/a><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last year we started an awards thingy for home blogs because we were tired of everyone lumping us into categories like &#8220;general lifestyle&#8221; or &#8220;topical&#8221; on all the other blog awards thingys.  It was a great success, we discovered a ton of awesome blogs and we drove a lot of traffic to them (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/ny\/books-guides-resources\/the-homies-2008-winners-below-the-jump-073350\">check out last year&#8217;s winners here<\/a>).  Tomorrow we&#8217;re opening up this year&#8217;s submissions for <strong>the best home blogs in five categories<\/strong>.  AND unlike most online awards, we&#8217;ve designed it so that it emphasizes sharing, celebrating and discovering new blogs.  We think you&#8217;ll be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/the-homies-2009-starts-tomorrow-discovering-sharing-honoring-the-best-in-home-blogs-104662\">Read Full Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>> Homies Main Page Last year we started an awards thingy for home blogs because we were tired of everyone lumping us into categories like &#8220;general lifestyle&#8221; or &#8220;topical&#8221; on all the other blog awards thingys. It was a great success, we discovered a ton of awesome blogs and we drove a lot of traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zo3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}