{"id":6444,"date":"2009-12-31T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:02:05","slug":"awards-season-at-a-distance-and-highly-concentrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/awards-season-at-a-distance-and-highly-concentrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards Season, at a Distance (and Highly Concentrated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"The Webb Ellis Cup, one of the few awards Froog has not won for his 2009 performance\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/webbellistrophy_sm.jpg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/>Heartiest congratulations to <em>RAMH<\/em> regular visitor and blog-friend Froog, who has performed the hat trick and then some in garnering &#8212; all at once &#8212; <em><strong>five<\/strong><\/em> best-of-the-year awards for his online presences:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Most Prolific Blogger,<\/li>\n<li>Most Alcoholic Blog,<\/li>\n<li>Most Uncomfortably Personal Blog,<\/li>\n<li>China-Basher of the Year, and (the one I really envy him for)<\/li>\n<li>Most Diverse Blog<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time <em>someone<\/em> <a title=\"Froogville: 'Awards Season'\" href=\"http:\/\/froogville.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/awards-season.html\" target=\"_blank\">gave him his due<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I understand Joan Rivers has begun making plans for the presentation ceremony. If she can just find a red carpet in his neighborhood which isn&#8217;t fluttering from a flagpole, she should be all set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartiest congratulations to RAMH regular visitor and blog-friend Froog, who has performed the hat trick and then some in garnering &#8212; all at once &#8212; five best-of-the-year awards for his online presences: Most Prolific Blogger, Most Alcoholic Blog, Most Uncomfortably Personal Blog, China-Basher of the Year, and (the one I really envy him for) Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,426,37],"tags":[229,331,1561],"class_list":{"0":"post-6444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-02_in-the-news","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-onlineworld","9":"tag-blogging","10":"tag-froog","11":"tag-blog-awards","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1FW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions\/6451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}