{"id":938,"date":"2009-10-10T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:48:36","slug":"on-that-peace-prize-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"On that peace prize thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam to dearly beloved: did you hear that Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize?<br \/>Dearly beloved: For&#8230;?<br \/>Sam: well that&#8217;s the question, isn&#8217;t it?!<\/p>\n<p>Strange that something so honourable can end up demeaning both parties. If Obama was Roman Catholic then beatitude might be possible, but as he isn&#8217;t, is there anywhere else left to go? I fear that after this, everything will be downhill and anti-climax. Is Nemesis ever merciful?<\/p>\n<p><span>(Sorry if this comes across as excessively cynical and snarky. I&#8217;m genuinely baffled.)<\/span><br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam to dearly beloved: did you hear that Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize?Dearly beloved: For&#8230;?Sam: well that&#8217;s the question, isn&#8217;t it?! Strange that something so honourable can end up demeaning both parties. If Obama was Roman Catholic then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-f8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6688,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/6688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}