{"id":198,"date":"2007-01-06T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/01\/alan-baumler-best-history-blog-writer-2006\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:39","slug":"alan-baumler-best-history-blog-writer-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/01\/alan-baumler-best-history-blog-writer-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Baumler: Best History Blog Writer, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/33681.html\">official<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Best Writer: Alan Baumler at Frog in a Well<\/p>\n<p>    Of all the nominations, the judges felt that Alan Baumler&#8217;s writing for Frog in a Well is the finest example of how blogs can make history accessible. He stands in the middle ground between scholar and non-scholar, adeptly demystifying historical and academic issues, bringing clarity to debates with his own arguments, and enlightening the unfamiliar of Asian history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Baumler is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><div align=center><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/bestwriting250px.jpg\" alt=\"Cliopatria Award 2006: Best Writer\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I was at the Cliopatria Lunch at which the awards were announced. Well, &#8220;announced&#8221; sounds so official; Ralph passed the list around and I found out about Alan when the person about two seats ahead of me let it slip. Anyway, it was fun to see everyone &#8220;in the flesh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More blogging about Day 2 &#8212; I was at two interesting panels, and got lots of schmoozing in &#8212; sometime on Day 3. Congratulations, Alan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: Best Writer: Alan Baumler at Frog in a Well Of all the nominations, the judges felt that Alan Baumler&#8217;s writing for Frog in a Well is the finest example of how blogs can make history accessible. He stands in the middle ground between scholar and non-scholar, adeptly demystifying historical and academic issues, bringing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[99,165,126,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-carnivals","category-china","category-general","category-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}