{"id":2148,"date":"2009-10-09T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-10-09T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:10:12","slug":"some_mornings_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Some Mornings You Just Don&#8217;t Know Whether To Laugh Or Just Slip The Restraints Back On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nObama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/10\/world\/10nobel.html?_r=1&#038;hp\" target=\"browser\">has won the freaking Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>??<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, the prize itself has been badly devalued by some of it&#8217;s recent winners &#8211; El Baredi? Arafat the kleptocrat terrorist? Jimmy Carter the dupe, Al Gore, carbon profiteer?<\/p>\n<p>And I have to say that this award &#8211; to Obama before he&#8217;s actually, you know, accomplished anything &#8211; devalues it further. It becomes one of those MTV awards bands with a hot single get before they develop substance abuse problems, enter rehab, go broke, and wind up working at Jamba Juice.<\/p>\n<p>Chait and Kaus both agree that the savvy thing for Obama to do would be to turn it down. It becomes a twofer then &#8211; he&#8217;s won it and he&#8217;s shown some humility and a sense of proportion.<\/p>\n<p>I actually think it&#8217;s going to be interesting this morning to see if he does.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a darn funny world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}