{"id":6846,"date":"2014-03-29T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2014-03-31T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:58:25","slug":"savannah-and-charleston-neck-and-neck-in-garden-guns-clever-promotional-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/03\/29\/savannah-and-charleston-neck-and-neck-in-garden-guns-clever-promotional-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah and Charleston neck-and-neck in Garden &#038; Gun&#8217;s clever promotional bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>UPDATE: So Savannah knocked off Charleston and now goes up against Asheville in Garden &#038; Gun&#8217;s clever contest.<\/p>\n<p>ORIGINAL POST:<br \/>\nIn the South Atlantic regional, Savannah has already knocked off Key West (maybe something of a surprise) and Thomasville (easy second round!), but now we&#8217;re up against Charleston.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, Savannah has 51.9 percent of the vote to Charleston&#8217;s 48.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>So, barring a big push from north of the border, Savannah will head into the final four and face Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>This all of course has to do with Garden &#038; Gun&#8217;s really clever promotional <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/article\/southern-towns-bracket\" target=\"_blank\">Greatest Southern Towns Bracket<\/a>. It&#8217;s obviously a great way to get people to the magazine&#8217;s website, and it&#8217;s a great way to get people thinking about visiting and researching various towns and cities in the South. <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a pretty thrilling development for some of G&#038;G&#8217;s advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>So, go vote if you&#8217;re so inclined. As silly as it is, there will be some good press out of all this, and it&#8217;s always nice to beat Charleston in something.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: So Savannah knocked off Charleston and now goes up against Asheville in Garden &#038; Gun&#8217;s clever contest. ORIGINAL POST: In the South Atlantic regional, Savannah has already knocked off Key West (maybe something of a surprise) and Thomasville (easy&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/03\/29\/savannah-and-charleston-neck-and-neck-in-garden-guns-clever-promotional-bracket\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6847,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-29-at-10.43.41-AM.png?fit=531%2C346","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}