{"id":1149,"date":"2006-03-31T06:55:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2006-03-31T06:55:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T11:55:23","slug":"blooker-in-nytimes-albeit-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/blooker-in-nytimes-albeit-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooker in NYTimes (albeit briefly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>lulu&#8217;s Stephen Fraser is delighed to let us know that the Blooker gets a mention in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/31\/arts\/31arts.html\">today&#8217;s NYTimes Arts, Briefly column<\/a> just after the section heading Da Vinci and the unstoppable Harry Potter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBlogs, including the diary of a prostitute and a guide to Britain&#8217;s best greasy-spoon cafes, are on the short list of 16 for the inaugural Lulu Blooker Prize, to be announced on Monday, the BBC reported. Sponsored by the self-publishing site Lulu, the Blooker Prize honors blooks, or books from blogs, published in English anywhere in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I note that the NYTimes remains a provincial paper, not doing original Blooker reporting but merely disgesting the news from the motherland (via BBC). The  result is that great American finalists don&#8217;t get a mention but blooks on bad British habits get the bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lulu&#8217;s Stephen Fraser is delighed to let us know that the Blooker gets a mention in today&#8217;s NYTimes Arts, Briefly column just after the section heading Da Vinci and the unstoppable Harry Potter: Blogs, including the diary of a prostitute and a guide to Britain&#8217;s best greasy-spoon cafes, are on the short list of 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","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=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}