{"id":190965,"date":"2009-10-10T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/10\/now-i-get-the-nobel-prize\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:18:00","slug":"now-i-get-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/10\/now-i-get-the-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Get the Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was for the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/10\/beer-summit-nobel\/\">Beer Summit<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>OSLO (The Borowitz Report) &#8211; As the world responded with a mixture of surprise and amazement to the announcement of President Obama\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel insiders revealed that the President\u2019s \u201cbeer summit\u201d at the White House put him over the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee was definitely split down the middle right up until the end,\u201d said Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician and member of the five-person Nobel committee. \u201cSome of them were still quite upset about that nasty business with the Somali pirates.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Dotcommie at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Getting the Israelis and the Egyptians to talk was WAY easier than a Boston Cop and a Black Man.<\/p>\n<p>Troof.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was for the &#8220;Beer Summit&#8220;: OSLO (The Borowitz Report) &#8211; As the world responded with a mixture of surprise and amazement to the announcement of President Obama\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel insiders revealed that the President\u2019s \u201cbeer summit\u201d at the White House put him over the top. \u201cThe committee was definitely split down the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,964,1100,1048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-relations","category-funny","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190965"}],"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=190965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}