{"id":125,"date":"2014-05-25T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2014-05-27T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:48:51","slug":"the-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/the-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After submitting maybe a hundred captions since 2008 I am now one of the three finalists! The odds were at best 0.06% &#8212; getting into Harvard is 100x easier &#8212; so it has been pretty exciting; I had to tell everyone. I find out who the winner is on Monday. (But aren&#8217;t all the finalists winners? I even went to New York City, but not to gloat, while I was a finalist. During that entire trip I saw one person reading The New Yorker. I resisted introducing myself.) Now I presume the gig&#8217;s up, who twice becomes a finalist? Below are my all-time favorite entries, in no order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Yorker-9709.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Yorker-9709-300x231.png\" alt=\"New Yorker 9:7:09\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Yorker-9709-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Yorker-9709-624x480.png 624w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Yorker-9709.png 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-may-3-2010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-may-3-2010-300x242.png\" alt=\"new yorker may 3, 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-may-3-2010-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-may-3-2010-624x503.png 624w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-may-3-2010.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-19-2010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-19-2010-300x233.png\" alt=\"new yorker april 19, 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-19-2010-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-19-2010-624x486.png 624w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-19-2010.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-121911.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-121911-300x269.png\" alt=\"new yorker 12:19:11\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-121911-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-121911-624x561.png 624w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-121911.png 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-131.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-145\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-131-300x259.png\" alt=\"new yorker april 13\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-131-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-131-624x540.png 624w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/new-yorker-april-131.png 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After submitting maybe a hundred captions since 2008 I am now one of the three finalists! The odds were at best 0.06% &#8212; getting into Harvard is 100x easier &#8212; so it has been pretty exciting; I had to tell everyone. I find out who the winner is on Monday. (But aren&#8217;t all the finalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-yorker-caption-contest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}