{"id":399,"date":"2007-04-17T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2007-04-17T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:50:00","slug":"proliferating-pulitzers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/04\/proliferating-pulitzers\/","title":{"rendered":"Proliferating Pulitzers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>here are few prizes in journalism as famous as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Pulitzers<\/span><\/a>. But now in their 90th year (but launching their 91st awards), they illustrate a tendency all too frequent in awards &#8211; inflation. Back in <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">1917<\/span> there were just three categories of journalism gong: public service, reporting and editorial writing. Now there are fourteen. Everyone likes a reward, but wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if sometimes an accolade remained a lone peak, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_McKinley\" target=\"_blank\">Mount McKinley<\/a> to others <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adirondack_Mountains\" target=\"_blank\">Adirondacks<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few prizes in journalism as famous as the Pulitzers. But now in their 90th year (but launching their 91st awards), they illustrate a tendency all too frequent in awards &#8211; inflation. Back in 1917 there were just three categories of journalism gong: public service, reporting and editorial writing. Now there are fourteen. Everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}