{"id":8384,"date":"2011-04-19T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T22:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2011-04-19T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T22:15:22","slug":"u-of-l-watches-closely-as-grawemeyer-award-winners-book-is-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/04\/u-of-l-watches-closely-as-grawemeyer-award-winners-book-is-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"U of L watches closely as Grawemeyer Award winner&#8217;s book is challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courier-Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2011304180063\">U of L watches closely as Grawemeyer Award winner&#8217;s book is challenged<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U of L announced last week that it was presenting the award to author Greg Mortenson, just days before the CBS news show aired a segment saying two of his books \u2014 \u201cThree Cups of Tea\u201d and \u201cStones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan\u201d \u2014 contained inaccuracies and fabrications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Grawemeyer Awards program has taken author Greg Mortenson at his word, as have millions of readers around the world. Given the impact of his work, we hope these early reports are unfounded but we will be closely watching this situation as it unfolds,\u201d Allan Dittmer, executive director of U of L&#8217;s Grawemeyer Awards, said Monday in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courier-Journal: U of L watches closely as Grawemeyer Award winner&#8217;s book is challenged U of L announced last week that it was presenting the award to author Greg Mortenson, just days before the CBS news show aired a segment saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/04\/u-of-l-watches-closely-as-grawemeyer-award-winners-book-is-challenged\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[1288933,2549,4093],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-academics","tag-fraud","tag-u-of-louisville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}