{"id":225092,"date":"2023-12-18T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/?p=225092"},"modified":"2023-12-15T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:22:53","slug":"nominations-are-now-open-for-the-15th-annual-sprudgie-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/nominations-are-now-open-for-the-15th-annual-sprudgie-awards-225092.html","title":{"rendered":"Nominations Are Now Open For The 15th Annual Sprudgie Awards","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it? We can hardly believe it. Now in its incredible 15th annual edition, The Sprudgie Awards has returned to honoring leadership and excellence in the world of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>We are proudly partnered with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/baristaseries\/\">Pacific Barista Series<\/a> to bring you the 15th Sprudgie Awards, and the entire process is\u00a0<strong>free to enter<\/strong> and <strong>open to all<\/strong>. There is no fee to submit a nomination, and no membership required to vote, all thanks to the ongoing community support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/baristaseries\/\">Pacific Barista Series,<\/a> whose bedrock support of this initiative makes our annual work possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193767 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pacific-barista-series-768x492-1.jpg\" alt=\"pacific barista series 768x492\" width=\"353\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pacific-barista-series-768x492-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/pacific-barista-series-768x492-1-760x487.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/vote\"><em>Nominations are now open<\/em><\/a><em>!<\/em>\u00a0This year&#8217;s nominations process will run through the holidays, and close in early January. Following the open nominations process, we\u2019ll whittle down to a final list of finalists, and open that up again to a popular vote. <strong>Open nominations close Monday, January 8th at 11:59 PM PST<\/strong>.\u00a0Finalists will be announced shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Vote now at <a href=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/vote\">http:\/\/sprudge.com\/vote<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>To protect our awards process from bots, we ask that you submit your email address with your nomination ballot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/vote\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e0e0df\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e0e0df;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"not-transparent aligncenter wp-image-225266 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-510x510.webp\" alt=\"15th annual sprudgie awards square logo\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-510x510.webp 510w, https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-800x800.webp 800w, https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/square-jpg.webp 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cast your ballot! Tell your friends! Nominate the people in coffee who really inspire you, and share the opportunity to nominate with others in your community. Thank you for being part of our annual Sprudgies tradition and a huge thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/baristaseries\/\">Pacific Barista Series<\/a> for supporting this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations close Monday, January 8th.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1,"featured_media":225257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18981],"tags":[19723,1474,103],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225300,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225092\/revisions\/225300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}