{"id":841,"date":"2007-01-18T12:43:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/skill-testing-question\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T17:43:24","slug":"skill-testing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/skill-testing-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill Testing Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,72511-0.html?tw=rss.index\">Wired article<\/a> today reminded me of something that has always bothered me:\u00c2\u00a0 why do contests have skill testing questions?\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently there is a law that requires companies to have a way for people to enter for free, so they always have had a test of some sort for the winner.\u00c2\u00a0 That way the game isn&#8217;t completely left to chance, but requires skill instead.\u00c2\u00a0 Ya right.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the case in the US, by the way, where you aren&#8217;t obliged to do anything to get your prize.<br \/>\nWeird.\u00c2\u00a0 But now I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wired article today reminded me of something that has always bothered me:\u00c2\u00a0 why do contests have skill testing questions?\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently there is a law that requires companies to have a way for people to enter for free, so they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/skill-testing-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}