{"id":189732,"date":"2010-02-18T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/18\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-14\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:26:00","slug":"signs-of-the-apocalypse-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/18\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">National Enquirer<\/span> has had its c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/emily-miller\/national-enquirer-officia_b_467932.html\">overage of of the John Edwards sex scandal accepted by the Pulitzer committee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Pulitzer Prize Board has officially accepted The National Enquirer&#8217;s submissions for breaking the John Edwards scandal, according to sources close to the Board. In a historic move, the Pulitzer Board conceded that the self-proclaimed tabloid is qualified to compete with mainstream news outlets for journalism&#8217;s most prestigious prize. The Enquirer is in the running for the Pulitzer in two categories: &#8220;Investigative Reporting&#8221; and &#8220;National News Reporting&#8221; for The National Enquirer staff. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree that they should be considered for the prize, but it&#8217;s still weird.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t bet on them winning though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Enquirer has had its coverage of of the John Edwards sex scandal accepted by the Pulitzer committee: The Pulitzer Prize Board has officially accepted The National Enquirer&#8217;s submissions for breaking the John Edwards scandal, according to sources close to the Board. In a historic move, the Pulitzer Board conceded that the self-proclaimed tabloid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1064,977,1075,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","category-presidential-campaign","category-sex","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}