{"id":744,"date":"2009-11-17T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=744"},"modified":"2009-11-17T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:30:14","slug":"state-quiz-new-image-relaunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/744","title":{"rendered":"State Quiz New Image Relaunch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working on it on and off for a few weeks, I&#8217;m proud to announce the full-scale relaunch of the <a href=\"\/ia\/squiz.htm\">State Quiz<\/a>, replete with new images and merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s not technically a relaunch if the quiz was never down, but it&#8217;s a good opportunity to, as they say, &#8220;take it again for the first time.&#8221;  The images represent the fulfillment of the original vision I had for them <a href=\"\/intro\/past159.htm\">over five years ago<\/a> when the quiz launched, which was to be state-shaped cutouts of the state flag, rather than outlines that featured the flag in awkward partial locations.<\/p>\n<p>An example, with my current state (one of the better images, if I do say so), is here:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/ia\/nj.jpg\"><br \/>\n<font face=\"Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Comic Sans MS, Impact, Helvetica, Arial\" size=\"5\"><br \/>\n<b>You&#8217;re New Jersey!<\/b><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\">You don&#8217;t just live in the suburbs, you define the culture of all Surburbia. You drive everywhere you go, love to eat at diners, and pretend to have a garden. While everyone knows that your house was built on a toxic waste dump, you do your best to hide this information and keep referring to those mythical gardens. Driving on a road without paying for it was a revolutionary experience you once had that you still think about all the time. You owe the Mafia so many favors that you&#8217;re thinking of renaming yourself Sicily.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<b>Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/ia\/squiz.htm\">State Quiz<\/a><br \/>\nat the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\">Blue Pyramid<\/a>.<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also added the full complement of merchandise available on the now-prodigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/thebluepyramid\">Cafe Press site<\/a>, just in time for the holidays.  So if there was ever an old design or description you were looking for on a shirt or a mug, now&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re out and about looking at links and holiday cheer, there are some of you who might not know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/buttonsandsocks\">my Mom&#8217;s latest sock doll project, Buttons and Socks<\/a>.  There&#8217;s some pretty neat stuff available there too, all hand-sewn by my very own mother.  I mean, can you turn down a face like this?:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=33855465\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ny-image2.etsy.com\/\/il_430xN.101201618.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought not.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I can only get the pumpkins down from this page and start writing again, I&#8217;ll really be in good shape!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working on it on and off for a few weeks, I&#8217;m proud to announce the full-scale relaunch of the State Quiz, replete with new images and merchandise. I guess it&#8217;s not technically a relaunch if the quiz was never down, but it&#8217;s a good opportunity to, as they say, &#8220;take it again for 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":[48,49],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-blue-pyramid-news","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-blue-pyramid-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}