{"id":371,"date":"2005-07-28T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=371"},"modified":"2005-07-28T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T23:28:05","slug":"bulwer-lytton-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Bulwer-Lytton failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alerted by <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretsoltan.phenominet.com\/2005\/07\/not-bad.html\">Margaret Soltan<\/a>, I found the winners of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/\">Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest<\/a>.  Alas, I did not earn any recognition for this scintillating entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leaning backwards over the balcony after three glasses of Merlot, the dean suddenly found himself dropping into the courtyard like a delinquent duck shot by a vigilante Supreme Court justice, landing squarely on students about to be honored for making the Provost&#8217;s List and finally realizing his public ambition of impacting college students in a lifelong way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My congratulations (or condolences) to Dan McKay, the winner of this year&#8217;s (dis)honor.  In other news, I chug along recovering from the summer course and chipping away at small things while engaging my son in high academic pursuits such as a 13-mile ride on the Tampa Bay trail, something that readers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v51\/i47\/47b00501.htm\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 column on summer projects<\/a> will recognize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alerted by Margaret Soltan, I found the winners of this year&#8217;s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Alas, I did not earn any recognition for this scintillating entry: Leaning backwards over the balcony after three glasses of Merlot, the dean suddenly found himself dropping into the courtyard like a delinquent duck shot by a vigilante Supreme Court justice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}