{"id":14247,"date":"2018-03-19T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=14247"},"modified":"2018-03-03T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T14:29:17","slug":"2018-atoz-challenge-theme-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=14247","title":{"rendered":"2018 #AtoZ Challenge ~ Theme Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14222\" src=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a2z-h-small.jpg\" alt=\"2018 #AtoZ\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a2z-h-small.jpg 400w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a2z-h-small-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a2z-h-small-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">2018 marks the 5th year I&#8217;ve taken part in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.<\/h1>\n<p>The first year (2014), my blog posts were random items, but they covered every letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>2015, I went with a proper theme and chose animals.<\/p>\n<p>2016, it was book titles.<\/p>\n<p>2017, I decided to cover musical groups\/solo artists.<\/p>\n<p>Quite the range of topics, don&#8217;t you think? So what does that mean for the 2018 #AtoZ Challenge?<\/p>\n<p>Rather than keep you, my faithful readers, in suspense any longer, my Blogging from A to Z Challenge theme for this year is &#8211; towns, cities and villages around the world.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll stop by each day of the challenge to see what location I&#8217;ve chosen for that date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s the schedule (not that I&#8217;m revealing any more than that at this time).<br \/>\nA &#8211; April 1st (yes, April Fool&#8217;s Day)<br \/>\nB &#8211; April 2nd<br \/>\nC &#8211; April 3rd<br \/>\nD &#8211; April 4th<br \/>\nE &#8211; April 5th<br \/>\nF &#8211; April 6th<br \/>\nG &#8211; April 7th<br \/>\nDay off &#8211; April 8th<br \/>\nH &#8211; April 9th<br \/>\nI &#8211; April 10th<br \/>\nJ &#8211; April 11th<br \/>\nK &#8211; April 12th<br \/>\nL &#8211; April 13th<br \/>\nM &#8211; April 14th<br \/>\nDay off &#8211; April 15th<br \/>\nN &#8211; April 16th<br \/>\nO &#8211; April 17th<br \/>\nP- April 18th<br \/>\nQ &#8211; April 19th<br \/>\nR &#8211; April 20th<br \/>\nS &#8211; April 21st<br \/>\nDay off &#8211; April 22nd<br \/>\nT &#8211; April 23rd<br \/>\nU &#8211; April 24th<br \/>\nV &#8211; April 25th<br \/>\nW &#8211; April 26th<br \/>\nX &#8211; April 27th<br \/>\nY &#8211; April 28th<br \/>\nDay off &#8211; April 29th<br \/>\nZ &#8211; April 30th<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of April 1st, there are no posts on Sundays. 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The first year (2014), my blog posts were random items, but they covered every letter of the alphabet. 2015, I went with a proper theme and chose animals. 2016, it was book titles. 2017, I decided to cover musical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=14247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2018 #AtoZ Challenge ~ Theme Reveal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[1070],"class_list":["post-14247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atozchallenge","tag-atozchallenge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2018 #AtoZ Challenge ~ Theme Reveal - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s theme reveal time for the 2018 #AtoZ Challenge! 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