{"id":7036,"date":"2006-04-03T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2006-04-03T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T16:23:07","slug":"i-guess-a-silver-medal-isnt-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-guess-a-silver-medal-isnt-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess a silver medal isn&#8217;t bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so readers know, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/vault\/2006\/04\/002603.html\">Koufax Award winners<\/a> were announced this morning and it looks like I came up a little short. As the announcement post explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We almost had a four-way dead heat in this category among The Carpetbagger Report, Crooks &#038; Liars, FireDogLake, and Hullabaloo. Switching little more than a handful of votes would have reversed the order of the top four.<\/p>\n<p>Many people commented on the difficulty of the decision. Congratulation to all four.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was, of course, only one winner and this year it was Crooks &#038; Liars. Congratulations to John for a terrific year and a well-deserved award.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed about the outcome, but it was truly an honor to make finals. I feel a little like George Mason U. in the NCAA tournament &#8212; I went a lot further than most observers probably expected, but couldn&#8217;t quite eke out the big win in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement this morning said that the vote was so close among the top four that Digby, FDL, and I are all runners-up. That&#8217;s awfully good company for me to be in, and it&#8217;s all thanks to support I received from readers like you. Many thanks to those of you who voted. And, of course, we can try again next year, right?<\/p>\n<p>And now, back to the news&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just so readers know, the Koufax Award winners were announced this morning and it looks like I came up a little short. As the announcement post explained: We almost had a four-way dead heat in this category among The Carpetbagger Report, Crooks &#038; Liars, FireDogLake, and Hullabaloo. Switching little more than a handful of votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}