{"id":61126,"date":"2018-10-08T07:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61126"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T08:41:35","slug":"moment-of-poetic-justice-huzzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61126","title":{"rendered":"Moment of Poetic Justice, huzzah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a non-alcoholic Monday morning pick-me-up ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to this year&#8217;s winner of the <strong>Rooney Literary Prize<\/strong>, for more reasons than one &#8212; first, for an exemplary example of life imitating art..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/QUO-life-imitates-art-Rooney-Prize-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/QUO-life-imitates-art-Rooney-Prize-1.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/QUO-life-imitates-art-Rooney-Prize-1-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second: that&#8217;s wonderful! <\/p>\n<p>And <strong><em>huzzah!<\/em><\/strong> is a polite, secular <strong><em>hallelujah!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Good Will Hunting:<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSMvyuEeIyw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Washington Post<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2018\/10\/03\/this-book-author-also-works-janitor-she-just-won-prestigious-literary-prize-university-she-cleans\/\">This author also works as a janitor. <\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Quartz<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/work\/1413434\/rooney-prize-winner-caitriona-lallys-clear-eyed-practical-humility\/\">A prestigious university just awarded a literary prize to one of its janitors<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li>it was the fact that Lally scrubs lecture halls, offices, and a library at Trinity every morning, rising at 4:45 am, and cleaning from 6 am to 9:30 am, before returning home to care for her infant daughter, that brought her international media attention.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nota bene:<\/strong> I am not the first to note the parallel between <strong>Good Will Hunting<\/strong>&#8216;s plot line and this year&#8217;s <strong>Rooney Prize<\/strong> story &#8212; but the pair of them also make for an exemplary <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> example, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a non-alcoholic Monday morning pick-me-up ] . Congratulations to this year&#8217;s winner of the Rooney Literary Prize, for more reasons than one &#8212; first, for an exemplary example of life imitating art.. Second: that&#8217;s wonderful! And huzzah! is a polite, secular hallelujah! ** Sources: Good Will Hunting: Washington Post, This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,652,67,1724,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-literature","category-movies","category-prize","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61126"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61142,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126\/revisions\/61142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}