{"id":362,"date":"2011-10-07T11:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:43:59","slug":"nobel-committee-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Committee controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_363\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nobel-medal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"Nobel medal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nobel-medal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nobel-medal.jpg 264w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nobel-medal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The most prestigious award, but what about the Committee?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been a week of Nobel prize announcements &#8211; from Literature to Chemistry &#8211; but perhaps the most prestigious of all is the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded every year in the Norwegian capital Oslo. It\u2019s usually a cause for celebration, but now questions are being asked about how the members of Norwegian Nobel Committee themselves are selected. Some even accuse them of lacking expertise and say they undermine the very spirit of Alfred Nobel\u2019s dying wish. Here is my report from Oslo for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/496870-nobel-controversy\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/496870-nobel-controversy\">listen to &lsquo;Nobel controversy&rsquo; on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/static1.boo.fm\/javascripts\/embed.js?1317207284\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a week of Nobel prize announcements &#8211; from Literature to Chemistry &#8211; but perhaps the most prestigious of all is the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded every year in the Norwegian capital Oslo. It\u2019s usually a cause for celebration, but now questions are being asked about how the members of Norwegian Nobel Committee themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}