{"id":15318,"date":"2012-05-31T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15318"},"modified":"2012-05-31T13:13:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:13:25","slug":"guildmag-is-holding-a-contest-to-give-away-guild-wars-2-beta-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/guildmag-is-holding-a-contest-to-give-away-guild-wars-2-beta-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"GuildMag is holding a contest to give away <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> beta keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Guild_Wars_2_icon.png\" title=\"Guild_Wars_2_icon\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" align=\"top\" \/>ArenaNet distributed some beta keys to several <em>Guild Wars 2<\/em> fan sites, including <em>GuildMag<\/em> (where I&#8217;m a contributing writer). We decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildmag.com\/guild-wars-2-beta-key-contest\" target=\"_blank\">run a contest<\/a> to decide who should get our allocation of beta keys. We wanted fans to complete the joke &#8220;An asura, sylvari and a charr walk into a bar\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The surge in traffic briefly knocked us offline. The community managers at ArenaNet noticed:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ramondomke\/status\/208226888773152769\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ArenaNet-CM-exultation.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ArenaNet CM exultation\" width=\"460\" height=\"592\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ArenaNet-CM-exultation.jpg 460w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ArenaNet-CM-exultation-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArenaNet distributed some beta keys to several Guild Wars 2 fan sites, including GuildMag (where I&#8217;m a contributing writer). We decided to run a contest to decide who should get our allocation of beta keys. We wanted fans to complete the joke &#8220;An asura, sylvari and a charr walk into a bar\u2026&#8221; The surge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[191,192],"class_list":["post-15318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-guildwars","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15321,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}