{"id":11893,"date":"2011-11-05T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11893"},"modified":"2011-11-05T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:25:02","slug":"my-official-windows-7-theme-pack-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11893","title":{"rendered":"My Official Windows 7 Theme Pack \u2013 Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a friend (Tim Bolton) pinged me to let me know that Microsoft had started <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/downloads\/windows-gallery-open-call\" target=\"_blank\">inviting<\/a> members of the community to submit photos for Windows 7 wallpapers.&#160; And if you were lucky enough, all of your submissions could be used as a theme.&#160; I spent a few hours selecting and preparing some photos. <\/p>\n<p>A few days later I got an email to let me know that over a thousand people had entered photos and I was \u201c<em>the very first person<\/em>\u201d contacted with an acceptance.&#160; Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/downloads\/raptors-theme\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"Click to download theme\" alt=\"Click to download theme\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.windows.microsoft.com\/resbox\/en\/Windows 7\/main\/db0a6418-1e41-4f54-b60c-0d3f3c7a42b5_8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Shepherd <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/windows\/b\/windowsexperience\/archive\/2011\/11\/03\/windows-7-themes-art-and-photography-from-the-community.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> more details on the program and the other lucky entrants on Thursday on the Windows Experience blog.<\/p>\n<p>My theme is available to <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/downloads\/raptors-theme\">download<\/a>.&#160; In it you\u2019ll find pictures of various birds of prey: Merlin, Barn Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Osprey (taking a trout), Short-Eared Owl, Red Kite, Little Owl, and a Long-Eared Owl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/downloads\/raptors-theme\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"clip_image001\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/cfs-file.ashx\/__key\/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles\/00-00-00-53-48-metablogapi\/7737.clip_5F00_image001_5F00_098AB9FE.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a friend (Tim Bolton) pinged me to let me know that Microsoft had started inviting members of the community to submit photos for Windows 7 wallpapers.&#160; And if you were lucky enough, all of your submissions could be used as a theme.&#160; I spent a few hours selecting and preparing some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Official Windows 7 Theme Pack \u2013 Raptors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-11893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}