{"id":1758,"date":"2009-01-26T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2009-01-26T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T21:56:00","slug":"nobody-deserves-a-newbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1758","title":{"rendered":"Nobody deserves a Newbery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still hugely pleased that <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2009\/01\/insert-amazed-and-delighted-swearing.html\">Neil Gaiman has won the Newbery Medal<\/a> for <i>The Graveyard Book,<\/i> which I would confidently call the best thing he&#8217;s written since <i>American Gods.<\/i>  (For those of you who don&#8217;t get the title of this post, &#8216;Nobody&#8217; is the name of the Mowgli-esque protagonist, so&#8230;  Oh, never mind.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also slightly relieved that the good Mr. Gaiman didn&#8217;t burst out into profanity to the Newbery committee, the way he did when he won the Hugo.  Somehow I doubt that &#8220;F**k, I won a Newbery!&#8221; would have gone over very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still hugely pleased that Neil Gaiman has won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book, which I would confidently call the best thing he&#8217;s written since American Gods. (For those of you who don&#8217;t get the title of this post, &#8216;Nobody&#8217; is the name of the Mowgli-esque protagonist, so&#8230; Oh, never mind.) I&#8217;m also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-sm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}