{"id":379,"date":"2007-10-22T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/379"},"modified":"2013-10-31T07:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:53:19","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-halloween-caption-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/379\/retro-scan-of-the-week-halloween-caption-contest","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Halloween Caption Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/halloween_caption_07_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/halloween_caption_07_small.jpg\" alt=\"VCG Halloween Caption Contest Image\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">\n<p>Halloween will soon be upon us, and you know what that means.  That&#8217;s right!  It&#8217;s time for <em>VC&#038;G&#8217;s<\/em> 5th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php?s=caption+contest\" target=\"_blank\">caption contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your task? Simply write the funniest caption you can think of for the image above. Anyone out there may enter the contest as many times as they want by writing a comment on this post.  I will select the winning caption a week from today and post the result.  The winner will receive an autographed<font color=\"red\">*<\/font>, heavily used copy of <em>Pac-Man<\/em> for the Atari 2600, which I will mail to him\/her if he\/she lives in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, it&#8217;s not really about winning; it&#8217;s about the self-satisfaction you&#8217;ll gain by entertaining your peers and the joy of participating in a community event.<\/p>\n<p>So join in the fun. Let&#8217;s see what you guys can come up with for this one.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><em><font color=\"red\">*<\/font> Autographed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/category\/regular_features\/ulaf-silchov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulaf Silchov<\/a>.<\/em><\/small>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween will soon be upon us, and you know what that means. That&#8217;s right! It&#8217;s time for VC&#038;G&#8217;s 5th caption contest. Your task? Simply write the funniest caption you can think of for the image above. Anyone out there may enter the contest as many times as they want by writing a comment on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,21,27,26,33,10],"tags":[622,255,60],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-ulaf-silchov","category-computers","tag-caption-contest","tag-halloween","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}