{"id":1394,"date":"2009-06-27T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T04:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2009-07-03T21:59:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T02:59:45","slug":"honorable-on-national-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/06\/honorable-on-national-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorable, on National Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURA, Calif. &#8212; Earlier this month, <strong>Brick<\/strong> revealed it was a <a title=\"the nominated columns are linked from here\" href=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/06\/02\/aw-shucks\/\" target=\"_blank\">finalist<\/a> in the annual contest of the National <a title=\"National Society of Newspaper Columnists\" href=\"http:\/\/columnists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a> of Newspaper Columnists.<\/p>\n<p>This evening at a banquet, it was announced that the honor was honorable mention, Online Columns category. Here is a list of <a title=\"Competition was fierce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.columnists.com\/index.php?ID=11\" target=\"_blank\">all winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the judge&#8217;s comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ben S. Pollock for the sweet personal observations about Northwest Arkansas life&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I accept the award. After all, this is the first national award for me for anything ever. The best part was the applause from the audience. I didn&#8217;t expect gasps and boos, but it was truly sweet music from friends and colleagues. I got to shake the hand of one of my idols, <a title=\"2009 NSNC Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award winner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/columnists\/carroll\/archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Carroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But.<\/p>\n<p>Of my <a title=\"the nominated columns are linked from here\" href=\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/06\/02\/aw-shucks\/\" target=\"_blank\">three columns<\/a>, one is a Benchleyesque fantasy not set anywhere in particular, another is a critique of hypocritical local fundraising and the third is, yes, a sweet personal observation. I am grateful the judge was moved by Nick Masullo; that&#8217;s him not me.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURA, Calif. &#8212; Earlier this month, Brick revealed it was a finalist in the annual contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. This evening at a banquet, it was announced that the honor was honorable mention, Online Columns category. Here is a list of all winners. Here is the judge&#8217;s comment: Ben S. Pollock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventura-2009","tag-columnist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1204,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/06\/aw-shucks\/","url_meta":{"origin":1394,"position":0},"title":"Aw, Shucks","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"June 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In mid-May, I received the following e-mail: Dear Ben Pollock, Congratulations. You are a winner in the \u201cOn-line Category\u201d of the 2009 National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual contest. We hope you will be with us to accept your award in person in beautiful Ventura, Calif. at the NSNC annual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Few Bullets More&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Few Bullets More","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/nsnc\/ventura-2009\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2004\/07\/honor-the-honorable\/","url_meta":{"origin":1394,"position":1},"title":"Honor the honorable","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"July 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, July 12, 2004: A proposal. Earlier this month, Carl Totemeier died. Didn't know him though stopped at his stand at the Fayetteville Farmer's Market sometimes. He sold plants. In his retirement, he moved to Northwest Arkansas, but continued with his profession of horticulture and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Body, Home, Street&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Body, Home, Street","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/body-home-street\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2375,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2010\/11\/drafty-barn-door\/","url_meta":{"origin":1394,"position":2},"title":"Drafty: Barn Door, Cracked Window","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"November 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock Now that the Republicans have done so well in the 2010 elections, they should use their momentum to enact the next sweeping measure for our time: Universal conscription for all American youth. A measure of Democrats would support this as well. Reviving -- and broadening\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;American Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"American Culture","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/american-culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1423,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/07\/parting-shots\/","url_meta":{"origin":1394,"position":3},"title":"Parting Shots","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"July 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"VENTURA, Calif. -- Following are reflections that don't fit in the reportage articles from the weekend's annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. A proud moment came in helping select the year's scholarship contest winner. Paul Bowers of the University of South Carolina -- the other USC, was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Few Bullets More&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Few Bullets More","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/nsnc\/ventura-2009\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2885,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2011\/06\/roger-and-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":1394,"position":4},"title":"Roger and Me","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"June 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Roger Ebert receives the 2011 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists A\u00a0version of this\u00a0Brick is published at columnists.com. DETROIT, Saturday, June 25, 2011 -- Following is the acceptance speech of Roger Ebert for the NSNC's Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. Ebert's physical condition prevented\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;I'm Your Vehicle, Detroit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"I'm Your Vehicle, Detroit","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/nsnc\/detroit-2011\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Roger Ebert accepts NSNC Lifetime Achievement Award 25 June 2011","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Roger-Ebert-062511-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":582,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2008\/08\/strategic-lactose-reserve\/","url_meta":{"origin":1394,"position":5},"title":"Strategic Lactose Reserve","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"August 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY -- The crisis in ice cream is one that should concern even those who dislike the confection, though that's one smear of fudge sauce against them already. The price of ice cream and comparable cooling sweets has jumped so much, so quickly that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News, Spin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News, Spin","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/news-spin\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}