{"id":190387,"date":"2009-12-04T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/washington-post-pundit-contest-winner-update\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:29:00","slug":"washington-post-pundit-contest-winner-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/washington-post-pundit-contest-winner-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Pundit Contest Winner Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have made a selection, it&#8217;s Kevin Huffman, who, as the Wonkette notes, is <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/412389\/washington-post-pundit-contest-winner-has-all-kinds-of-new-perspectives-on-things\">not exactly going to shake things up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>He appears to be nothing more than a composite of all preexisting <em>Washington Post<\/em> op-ed writers, yet somehow <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">even whiter<\/span>. Synergy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Background on my unsuccessful application for the contest <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=pundit+contest\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have made a selection, it&#8217;s Kevin Huffman, who, as the Wonkette notes, is not exactly going to shake things up: He appears to be nothing more than a composite of all preexisting Washington Post op-ed writers, yet somehow even whiter. Synergy! (emphasis mine) Background on my unsuccessful application for the contest here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1064,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-media","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190387"}],"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=190387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}