{"id":1389,"date":"2009-10-12T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:52:12","slug":"qotd-next-nobel-prize-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/qotd-next-nobel-prize-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Next Nobel Prize nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In the light of this week&#8217;s ridiculous announcement that Barack H. Obama had been given a Nobel Peace Prize, for no perceivable reason &mdash; the same empty honor having previously been bestowed upon such luminaries as Jimmy Carter and Albert Gore &mdash; it is my honor and pleasure to present you with our own nominations for the next Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, I thought hard myself about Madonna (words I never thought I&#8217;d see myself say), although I&#8217;m certain that excellent cases might be made &mdash; employing the Nobel committee&#8217;s apparent guidlines &mdash; for Gary Glitter, David Hasselhoff, Peewee Herman, Charles Manson, Paris Hilton, Lou Costello, Hello Kitty, or Jack the Ripper. Basically anybody who can afford a box of Crackerjack to look for the prize inside. <\/p>\n<p>L. Neil Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2009-10-12<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of this week&#8217;s ridiculous announcement that Barack H. Obama had been given a Nobel Peace Prize, for no perceivable reason &mdash; the same empty honor having previously been bestowed upon such luminaries as Jimmy Carter and Albert Gore &mdash; it is my honor and pleasure to present you with our own nominations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[8,57,41],"tags":[52,158,39,1382,332],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-absurd","tag-barackobama","tag-junkscience","tag-lneilsmith","tag-nobelprize"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58510,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/58510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}