{"id":516,"date":"2012-04-13T19:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-04-15T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T16:33:28","slug":"thoughts-on-hugo-awards-1953-to-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/thoughts-on-hugo-awards-1953-to-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Hugo awards 1953 to 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hugo Awards are science fiction and fantasy awards voted on by people who attend (or buy a supporting membership to) the World Science Fiction Convention each year. Jo Walton, author of such books as <strong>Tooth and Claw<\/strong>, takes a look back through all the winners and nominees and gives her thoughts on whether they were deserved or not. I don&#8217;t agree with everything she says (for one thing, she&#8217;s a bit harsh on movies), but she&#8217;s read a lot of books and is very articulate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/features\/series\/revisiting-the-hugos\">Revisiting the Hugos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hugo Awards are science fiction and fantasy awards voted on by people who attend (or buy a supporting membership to) the World Science Fiction Convention each year. Jo Walton, author of such books as Tooth and Claw, takes a look back through all the winners and nominees and gives her thoughts on whether they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7,9,6,8,44],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}