{"id":4816,"date":"2005-10-10T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2005-10-10T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T09:37:14","slug":"en-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"en route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to post something substantive here every workday. In fact, I&#8217;ve addressed one topic or another for the last 700 days except during family vacations. However, as Monday, Oct. 10 begins, I&#8217;m waiting for a delayed midnight flight from Atlanta to Columbus, OH. (We were in rural Georgia for a true Southern family reunion, complete with a pig roast. I&#8217;m going to Columbus for a meeting on service-learning that John Glenn will address.) I feel tired enough, as I await this late flight and the prospect of two days of meetings, that I don&#8217;t expect to be able to manage a substantive post until Tuesday at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>PS, By the time I got online and had a chance to post this, I learned some news that&#8217;s exciting to acknowledge. The great Tom Schelling, a colleague at the Maryland School of Public Policy, has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. He joins Amartya Sen as one of my two favorite winners ever. He&#8217;s not only a brilliantly original social scientist who has wrestled with the vital questions of the day (from nuclear war to global environmental threats); he&#8217;s also a beautiful writer and a true gentleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to post something substantive here every workday. In fact, I&#8217;ve addressed one topic or another for the last 700 days except during family vacations. However, as Monday, Oct. 10 begins, I&#8217;m waiting for a delayed midnight flight from Atlanta to Columbus, OH. (We were in rural Georgia for a true Southern family reunion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}