{"id":6120,"date":"2015-06-08T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2015-06-08T22:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:12:26","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=6120","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Our Spring 2015 Photo Contest has come to a close. Thank you to everyone who shared their photos with the Lehigh Valley. There was certainly a lot of sharing to get our top three most shared photos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The number one shared photo was of the Cementon-Northampton Bridge taken by Stephanie Moyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5981 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cementon-Northampton-Bridge-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cementon Northampton Bridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cementon-Northampton-Bridge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cementon-Northampton-Bridge-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cementon-Northampton-Bridge-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cementon-Northampton-Bridge.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The second most shared photo was of the Allentown Rose Gardens by Jane Geist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5710 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl28-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"2015tvl28\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl28-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl28-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl28.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Our third place photo was of the Cigar Factory sign on the at The Alternative Gallery in Allentown by Elizabeth Spiegel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5690 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl8-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015tvl8\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl8-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015tvl8.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Congratulations to all of our winners. You will be contacted shortly to receive your prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">If you missed this contest be sure to sign up for our mailing list so you can join in the fun next time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?page_id=5791\">You can check out the rest of the 2015 Spring Photo Contest by Clicking Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just in case the social counters are not enough&#8230; Here are screen shots of the social counters, our google stats on page visits, and our spreadsheet to figure it all out. Some details of the spread sheet are hidden so that we do not share contestants information. Also we only showed Google Stats relevant to the contest.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the shares came from people sharing links, directly on social media, but the google stats give a good look at which pages where shared by visiting the page as well.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirmation-stats.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6128 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirmation-stats-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"confirmation stats\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirmation-stats-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirmation-stats-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirmation-stats-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirmation-stats.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Spring 2015 Photo Contest has come to a close. Thank you to everyone who shared their photos with the Lehigh Valley. There was certainly a lot of sharing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=6120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And the winner is&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-contest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}