{"id":1474,"date":"2011-04-18T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2011-04-18T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:23:50","slug":"the_shallows_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Shallows&#8221; is Pulitzer Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and I&#8217;m thrilled to report that my book <i>The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/i> was named a finalist in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/citation\/2011-General-Nonfiction\">General Nonfiction category<\/a>. The prize winner in the category was Siddhartha Mukherjee&#8217;s <i>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer<\/i>. The other finalist was S. C. Gwynne&#8217;s <i>Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and I&#8217;m thrilled to report that my book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was named a finalist in the General Nonfiction category. The prize winner in the category was Siddhartha Mukherjee&#8217;s The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. The other finalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}