{"id":1426,"date":"2009-10-15T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2009-10-15T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:14:46","slug":"nobel-committee-had-reservations-was-not-unanimous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/nobel-committee-had-reservations-was-not-unanimous\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel committee had reservations, was <em>not<\/em> unanimous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s not just the cranky centrists, paranoid rightists and lunatic libertarians who thought the Nobel Peace Prize award to Barack Obama was incorrect: so did <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/091015\/world\/nobel_peace_obama_norway_us\" target=\"_blank\">a majority of the committee itself<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid <em>Verdens Gang<\/em> (VG) reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama,&#8221; the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s not just the cranky centrists, paranoid rightists and lunatic libertarians who thought the Nobel Peace Prize award to Barack Obama was incorrect: so did a majority of the committee itself: Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[62,53,13],"tags":[158,39,332],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-junkscience","tag-nobelprize"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}