{"id":13312,"date":"2012-09-06T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2012-09-06T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:54:02","slug":"genie-scott-wins-dawkins-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/genie-scott-wins-dawkins-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Genie Scott Wins Dawkins Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NCSE&#8217;s executive director Eugenie C. Scott received the Atheist Alliance of America&#8217;s Richard Dawkins Award at the group&#8217;s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, on September 1, 2012. Unable to attend the ceremony in person, the namesake of the award began his video introduction by saying, &#8220;Eugenie Scott is one of my very favorite people, although we have our civilized disagreements, as I shall tell,&#8221; and adding, &#8220;it&#8217;s impossible to meet Genie without loving her, whether you agree with her or not.&#8221; Scott began her acceptance speech by joking, &#8220;I now possess awards in the names of both Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins. This demonstrates that I can get along with everyone. Regardless of my historic amiability, however, I do not anticipate ever being presented with the Ken Ham award, if such exists.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2012\/09\/ncses-scott-receives-dawkins-award-0014562\">Details here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCSE&#8217;s executive director Eugenie C. Scott received the Atheist Alliance of America&#8217;s Richard Dawkins Award at the group&#8217;s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, on September 1, 2012. Unable to attend the ceremony in person, the namesake of the award began his video introduction by saying, &#8220;Eugenie Scott is one of my very favorite people, although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/genie-scott-wins-dawkins-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genie Scott Wins Dawkins Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3sI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}