{"id":612,"date":"2006-09-19T07:38:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T07:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/19\/wait-till-next-year\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T07:38:27","slug":"wait-till-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/19\/wait-till-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait &#8216;Till Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/site\/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH\/b.1053853\/apps\/nl\/content2.asp?content_id={7275F53D-5B7F-422C-B77E-181B830FE905}&#038;notoc=1\">&#8220;Genius Grants&#8221; for 2006 have been announced<\/a>, and as usual, your humble correspondent is not among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/site\/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH\/b.2066197\/k.3F6D\/2006_Overview.htm\">the winners<\/a>. Damn. <\/p>\n<p>You know, if I were a MacArthur trustee, I&#8217;d be sorely tempted to throw one grant a year to somebody completely bizarre&#8211; $500,000 to Giblets for excellence in Fafbloggery&#8211; just for the hell of it. Or, better yet, just pick a name out of the phone book, and drop $500K on them. Why him? The MacArthur Foundation works in mysterious ways, its wonders to perform&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is probably sufficient explanation of why I will never be selected to help administer a multi-million-dollar grant program with vague criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Genius Grants&#8221; for 2006 have been announced, and as usual, your humble correspondent is not among the winners. Damn. You know, if I were a MacArthur trustee, I&#8217;d be sorely tempted to throw one grant a year to somebody completely bizarre&#8211; $500,000 to Giblets for excellence in Fafbloggery&#8211; just for the hell of it.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/19\/wait-till-next-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wait &#8216;Till Next Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}