{"id":1259,"date":"2010-10-14T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T03:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2010-10-14T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T03:34:27","slug":"the-man-booker-prize-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"The Man Booker Prize 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/stories\"> <span style=\"padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"> <\/span><\/a><span style=\"padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 145px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>British author Howard Jacobson has won the prestigious Booker Prize  for his comic novel<strong> <em>&#8216;The Finkler Question&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, beating five others  including two-time winner Peter Carey and the bookies&#8217; favourite Tom  McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time in the awards 42-year  history that a comic novel has been voted winner of the \u00a350,000 prize  last night.<\/p>\n<p>The Finkler Question is a novel about love, loss and male friendship, and explores what it means to be Jewish today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British author Howard Jacobson has won the prestigious Booker Prize for his comic novel &#8216;The Finkler Question&#8217;, beating five others including two-time winner Peter Carey and the bookies&#8217; favourite Tom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1259\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,125],"tags":[8892,8893,8894,8895,3022,8896],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-honours","category-current-affairs-today","tag-british-author-howard-jacobson","tag-howard-jacobson","tag-howard-jacobson-wins-the-man-booker-prize-2010","tag-howard-jacobson-wins-the-man-booker-prize-for-fiction-2010","tag-man-booker-prize","tag-the-finkler-question","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}