{"id":514,"date":"2009-06-16T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=514"},"modified":"2009-06-16T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:50:11","slug":"which-is-to-say-like-finks-with-an-extra-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Which is to say, like &#8220;Finks&#8221; with an extra S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-515\" style=\"margin: 8px 10px;\" title=\"sfinks_200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sfinks_200.jpg\" alt=\"sfinks_200\" width=\"200\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sfinks_200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sfinks_200-174x300.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>More news from Poland.\u00a0\u00a0 Evidently <em>\u015alepowidzenie<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/sfinks.solarisnet.pl\/\">won the &#8220;Sfinks&#8221; award<\/a> for &#8220;Best Foreign Novel&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a shot at &#8220;Best Novel&#8221;, period, but Cormac McCarthy beat me out for it, perhaps to pay me back for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=393\">NAST Awards<\/a>.\u00a0 (I did, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatura.gildia.pl\/news\/2009\/06\/sfinksy-2009-rozdane\">come a close second<\/a> in that category by a mere 13 votes.)<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the lack of any cash award keeps me humble.\u00a0 But if someone over there is willing to foot the postage, I&#8217;ll get this nifty little statuette of what appears to be a sarcophagus for a mosquito.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s heavy enough to use as a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More news from Poland.\u00a0\u00a0 Evidently \u015alepowidzenie has won the &#8220;Sfinks&#8221; award for &#8220;Best Foreign Novel&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a shot at &#8220;Best Novel&#8221;, period, but Cormac McCarthy beat me out for it, perhaps to pay me back for the NAST Awards.\u00a0 (I did, however, come a close second in that category by a mere 13 votes.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}