{"id":1548,"date":"2005-12-05T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2005-12-05T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T03:04:00","slug":"1548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE 2005 WEBLOG AWARDS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alerted by the ever helpful <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglitteringeye.com\/\">Dave Schuler<\/a><\/strong>, I am pleased to say that <strong><em>Zenpundit<\/em><\/strong> has been nominated and is a finalist for <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogawards.org\/2005\/12\/best_of_the_top_17512500_blogs.php\"> <strong>BEST OF THE TOP 1751-2500<\/strong> <\/a> in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogawards.org\/2005\/12\/2005_weblog_awards_polls_navig.php\">The 2005 Weblog Awards<\/a><\/strong>. Should I win, I hope to parlay the momentum and notoriety accrued into a mad quest to achieve world domination and&#8230;cough&#8230;.ahem&#8230;write a short, self-congratulatory, post.<\/p>\n<p>Like Mr. Schuler, I would like to take the time to endorse a few gentlemen I&#8217;m honored to call my&#8221; blogfriends&#8221; who are also finalists in categories of their own:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogawards.org\/2005\/12\/best_of_the_top_1001_1750_blog.php\">BEST OF THE TOP 1001- 1750<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglitteringeye.com\/\">The Glittering Eye<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much like the Middleweight division in boxing, this category has a deep bench when it comes to talent. <strong><em> The Glittering Eye,<\/em><\/strong> however, sparkles brighter and Dave regularly demonstrates his perception, analytical prowess and wide ranging intellect.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogawards.org\/2005\/12\/best_blog_design.php\">BEST BLOG DESIGN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/\">Coming Anarchy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curzon<\/strong>, <strong>Younghusband<\/strong> and <strong>Chirol <\/strong>have made<strong><em> Coming Anarchy<\/em><\/strong> a blog that is as visually impressive and thematically unified as it is intellectully stimulating. One of my favorite places to hang out and comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogawards.org\/2005\/12\/best_asian_blog.php\">BEST ASIAN BLOG<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/simonworld.mu.nu\/\">Simon World<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes called &#8221; The Instapundit of Asia&#8221;, Simon World has been a &#8220;must-read&#8221; blog for Asian and especially Chinese affairs for me for some time now.  A richly deserved nomination.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogawards.org\/2005\/12\/2005_weblog_awards_polls_navig.php\">VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN !<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE 2005 WEBLOG AWARDS Alerted by the ever helpful Dave Schuler, I am pleased to say that Zenpundit has been nominated and is a finalist for BEST OF THE TOP 1751-2500 in The 2005 Weblog Awards. Should I win, I hope to parlay the momentum and notoriety accrued into a mad quest to achieve world [&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-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}