{"id":194,"date":"2007-01-12T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:40","slug":"congrats-to-major-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Major Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCongrats to my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorjackson.com\/\">Major Jackson<\/a>, whose extraordinary book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/0393059375\/ref=s9_asin_title_1\/002-6665415-0930462\">Hoops<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070111\/NEWS\/70111028\">nominated<\/a> for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacpimageawards.net\/main.html\">NAACP Image Award<\/a> in the Outstanding Literary Work category.  A PDF of the complete list of nominees can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacpimageawards.net\/PDFs\/38thNIANomineesRelease.pdf\">here<\/a>.  The winners will be announced March 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI picked up Hoops earlier this year when I was in Washington, DC on business and, because I couldn&#8217;t put the book down, hogged a table at a busy Thai restaurant long after I was done eating. This nomination is a very well-deserved honour for a great book (and a great guy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to my colleague Major Jackson, whose extraordinary book Hoops has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work category. A PDF of the complete list of nominees can be found here. The winners will be announced March 2. I picked up Hoops earlier this year when I was in Washington, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}