{"id":1095,"date":"2006-03-11T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2006-03-11T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T13:18:20","slug":"blooker-v-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/blooker-v-booker\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooker v Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Bob Young&#8217;s gumption. True, I&#8217;m judging the <a href=\"http:\/\/lulublookerprize.typepad.com\/\">Blooker Prize <\/a>for his lulu.com venture, but even if I weren&#8217;t I&#8217;d be admiring his take on how the Blooker will overtake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/\">the Booker (now know as Man Booker)<\/a> in a few years (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/03\/08\/nblook08.xml\">see the Telegraph UK for one particularly zesty Young performance).<\/a><br \/>\nAs I look over the press, I see that the Brits love the Blooker. Or at least the Brit press seems to. Lots of coverage from the &#8220;small island nation&#8221; which has landed two blooks in the contest &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0297847821\/qid%3D1095168628\/202-0353301-9219815\">one by a callgirl<\/a> and one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007213786\/russelldavies-20\/202-0353301-9219815\">Bacon Egg Chips and Beans<\/a>.<br \/>\nI am waiting, by the way, for a contest for female writers called the <em>Woman Booker Prize<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Bob Young&#8217;s gumption. True, I&#8217;m judging the Blooker Prize for his lulu.com venture, but even if I weren&#8217;t I&#8217;d be admiring his take on how the Blooker will overtake the Booker (now know as Man Booker) in a few years (see the Telegraph UK for one particularly zesty Young performance). As I look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}