{"id":18758,"date":"2014-11-25T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=18758"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:09:10","slug":"i-won-a-small-halo-contest-and-you-can-benefit-from-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=18758","title":{"rendered":"I won a small Halo contest! (And you can benefit from it too!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallery Books held a contest at the launch of the new novel, Halo: Broken Circle.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was to like and\u00a0comment on their Facebook page: If you could be any character in Halo lore, who would it be and why?<\/p>\n<p>My answer was:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Well, by far it would have to be Master Chief. He&#8217;s respected, he&#8217;s lucky, and he&#8217;s not just a spartan, he&#8217;s THE Spartan!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That last bit was paraphrasing Spartan Locke when he tells the Arbiter whom he is hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the prize pack that went to two lucky winners. There were close to 1,000 comments. I was one of two people who won!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gallery-Books-prizes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18757\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gallery-Books-prizes-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gallery Books prizes\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gallery-Books-prizes-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gallery-Books-prizes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gallery-Books-prizes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gallery-Books-prizes.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>I received the prize pack yesterday. The only thing switched out was the jackal for an Elite Ranger. I actually like the Elite Ranger figure even more than the Jackal, so I was quite happy about that. Also within the prize pack was a nice spiral bound notebook and canvas bag from Gallery Books.<\/p>\n<p>I already own\u00a0all of the Halo stuff awarded to me. Some I&#8217;m going to keep, some I&#8217;m going to offer through the blog as contest prizes. This way I get to share the wealth, so-to-speak.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Of what&#8217;s shown above, the following will be prizes in upcoming HFFL contests:<\/span><br \/>\n\u2022 Halo Broken Circle Novel<br \/>\n\u2022 Forward Unto Dawn Blue Ray<br \/>\n\u2022 Halo 4 Original Soundtrack<\/p>\n<p>The following two are parts of the Halo Mega Bloks sets that I&#8217;ll give as prizes as well:<br \/>\n\u2022 Tartarus from the Battle pack set above<br \/>\n\u2022 The Squad of 4 White Spartans from the Revenant set<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to run a <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">charity auction<\/span> for the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Gamestop exclusive Red Spartan<\/span><\/strong> on eBay. Money raised through that auction will be given\u00a0to the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the contests next week, as well as info on the charity auction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallery Books held a contest at the launch of the new novel, Halo: Broken Circle. The contest was to like and\u00a0comment on their Facebook page: If you could be any character in Halo lore, who would it be and why? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=18758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18761,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions\/18761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}