{"id":366,"date":"2011-08-09T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=366"},"modified":"2011-08-09T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:13:17","slug":"story-contest-land-shark-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Story Contest: Land Shark Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back at my old blog,<\/strong> I used to do the occasional story<\/a> contest<\/a>. I show a photo, set up a bunch of arbitrary and inflexible rules, and then invite readers to submit a story that goes along with the photo. I choose the winners based on creativity, rules adherence, and where the dart hits my computer screen…and the winner gets a free signed book of their choice.<\/p>\n

It’s time to introduce all that fun to Dadequate.<\/p>\n

Yesterday,<\/strong> the webs were abuzz with a story about a mysterious blue shark<\/a> that was found by a couple of guys in the woods of New Hampshire, an hour’s drive away from the ocean.<\/p>\n

No, it wasn’t this<\/em> kind of woodsy shark:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

It was THIS one:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Parents,<\/strong> as you hopefully know, are required by the rules of good parenting to be able to make up a spur-of-the-moment story about pretty much anything. Tell me a story about dinosaurs and the teapot, Daddy! Tell me a story about the little people that live inside my shoelaces!<\/em><\/p>\n

So that’s going to be the scope of this story contest: Tell us the story of this shark.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. You have to explain how a blue shark came to be in the woods of New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

2. The story must be written in a story-type format, but using no more than 6 sentences. You can use less than six but no more.<\/p>\n

3. The story must be creative and plausible enough for a 5 year-old, or at least my perspective on what is plausible a 5 year-old.<\/p>\n

4. About the word “plausible” — it doesn’t have to make logical sense. It can involve mermaids or aliens or Charlie Sheen or whatever, just as long as it works.<\/p>\n

5. It cannot reference Shark Week<\/a>. Because I already know what you’re thinking. It can<\/em> reference James Woods, but that’s not a requirement.<\/p>\n

6. Everyone is welcome to enter, whether you are a mom or dad, a parent or not.<\/p>\n

All submissions<\/strong> must be left in the comments by 6 pm Eastern tomorrow, August 10. I’ll announce the winner here on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ready? Go!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back at my old blog, I used to do the occasional story contest. I show a photo, set up a bunch of arbitrary and inflexible rules, and then invite readers to submit a story that goes along with the photo. I choose the winners based on creativity, rules adherence, and where the dart hits my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,239],"tags":[240,241,242],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-story-contest","tag-james-woods","tag-shark","tag-shark-week"],"yoast_head":"\nStory Contest: Land Shark Edition - Dadequate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Story Contest: Land Shark Edition - Dadequate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back at my old blog, I used to do the occasional story contest. I show a photo, set up a bunch of arbitrary and inflexible rules, and then invite readers to submit a story that goes along with the photo. I choose the winners based on creativity, rules adherence, and where the dart hits my…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dadequate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-08-09T21:13:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.mbc.net\/mbc.net\/Arabic\/Image\/MBC%20Action\/070530\/shark_L.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jason Boyett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Story Contest: Land Shark Edition - Dadequate","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Story Contest: Land Shark Edition - Dadequate","og_description":"Back at my old blog, I used to do the occasional story contest. I show a photo, set up a bunch of arbitrary and inflexible rules, and then invite readers to submit a story that goes along with the photo. I choose the winners based on creativity, rules adherence, and where the dart hits my…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html","og_site_name":"Dadequate","article_published_time":"2011-08-09T21:13:17+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mbc.net\/mbc.net\/Arabic\/Image\/MBC%20Action\/070530\/shark_L.jpg"}],"author":"Jason Boyett","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html","name":"Story Contest: Land Shark Edition - Dadequate","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.mbc.net\/mbc.net\/Arabic\/Image\/MBC%20Action\/070530\/shark_L.jpg","datePublished":"2011-08-09T21:13:17+00:00","dateModified":"2011-08-09T21:13:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#\/schema\/person\/f69eb4f788db541ff47d2f5d01cad5e7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.mbc.net\/mbc.net\/Arabic\/Image\/MBC%20Action\/070530\/shark_L.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.mbc.net\/mbc.net\/Arabic\/Image\/MBC%20Action\/070530\/shark_L.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/story-contest-land-shark-edition.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Story Contest: Land Shark Edition"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/","name":"Dadequate","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Jason Boyett","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/#\/schema\/person\/f69eb4f788db541ff47d2f5d01cad5e7","name":"Jason Boyett","description":"Jason Boyett is a writer, speaker, and the author of several books, including O Me of Little Faith (Zondervan), and the Pocket Guide series (Jossey-Bass). His work has appeared in Salon, Paste, The Daily Beast, Relevant, and a variety of other publications. He has also appeared on the History Channel and National Geographic Channel. Jason lives in Texas with his wife and two kids. Follow him at twitter and jasonboyett.com.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/author\/jboyett"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}