{"id":1985,"date":"2009-02-25T17:49:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2009-02-25T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:49:41","slug":"an-unexpected-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"An unexpected honour"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>Fishing in Utopia, already entered for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rslit.org\/index.php?n=Awards.Ondaatje\">the Oondatje Prize<\/a>    , has just to my astonishment been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorwellprize.co.uk\/the-award\/long-books.aspx\">long-listed<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorwellprize.co.uk\/home.aspx\">the Orwell prize for political writing<\/a>. Given that the other candidates include Patrick Cockburn, Ahmed Rashid, Phillipe Sands and Tony Judt I don&#8217;t think for a moment that I am going to win. But it would be lovely to make the shortlist, and in any case, even the longlist is a completely unexpected treat.<\/p>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>Fishing in Utopia, already entered for the Oondatje Prize , has just to my astonishment been long-listed for the Orwell prize for political writing. Given that the other candidates include Patrick Cockburn, Ahmed Rashid, Phillipe Sands and Tony Judt I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1985\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}