{"id":199,"date":"2003-11-14T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2003-11-14T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T21:33:00","slug":"national-humanities-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"National Humanities Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of listening to some of the thoughts of the <a title=\"National Humanities Medal Recipients for 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/11\/20031113-11.html\">National Humanities Medal Recipients for 2003<\/a>, when the NEH had a reception this afternoon.  Of the recipients, Jean Fritz, Edith Kurzweil, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Joseph Epstein came in to talk a little about how they became involved in humanities work.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein was particularly engaging, answering questions with a series of poignant and humorous anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>A work friend summarized perfectly: &#8220;I would love to have him at a dinner party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a taste of style and wit, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identitytheory.com\/interviews\/birnbaum122.html\">a recent interview on identitytheory.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}