{"id":23928,"date":"2017-04-08T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T04:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23928"},"modified":"2017-04-08T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T04:37:18","slug":"minnesota-book-award-non-fiction-category-and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/08\/minnesota-book-award-non-fiction-category-and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Book Award Non Fiction Category: And The Winner Is &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, supported by Education Minnesota, ran the 29th annual Minnesota Book Awards ceremony tonight, and Amanda and I were graciously invited by author Shawn Otto and State Auditor and Gubernatorial Hopeful Rebecca Otto to join them at their table.  Shawn&#8217;s wildly popular, and extremely, increasingly relevant book <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1571313532\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1571313532&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=35e7ff6ffcc341528e749d34c09dfb9c\">The War on Science: Who&#8217;s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1571313532\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> was up for the award in General Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>There was a great deal of suspense, as Shawn&#8217;s category was the very last one of several, and there were several other awards and recognitions.  Lou Bellamy of Penumbra Theater was recognized as a Kay Sexton Honoree, Steven McCarthy received the Book Artist Award, and there were other items on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Shawn&#8217;s category came up, and the award was announced. Did he win? Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/95EnvRMuWKs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Shawn Otto!<\/p>\n<p>He also wrote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00E9PXEAU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00E9PXEAU&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=7283d2e3e1b40bbfd7599804060ee608\">this<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00E9PXEAU\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1571311092\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1571311092&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=8a285e07a809d1bd92a37e34b2095212\">this<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1571311092\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, supported by Education Minnesota, ran the 29th annual Minnesota Book Awards ceremony tonight, and Amanda and I were graciously invited by author Shawn Otto and State Auditor and Gubernatorial Hopeful Rebecca Otto to join them at their table. Shawn&#8217;s wildly popular, and extremely, increasingly relevant book The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/08\/minnesota-book-award-non-fiction-category-and-the-winner-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minnesota Book Award Non Fiction Category: And The Winner Is &#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40,1744,1745,1457],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6dW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928"}],"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=23928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}