{"id":640,"date":"2009-03-02T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/03\/02\/i-win-the-mindelheim-philosophy-prize\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:57:00","slug":"i-win-the-mindelheim-philosophy-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/03\/02\/i-win-the-mindelheim-philosophy-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"I win the Mindelheim Philosophy Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/Sau8vQjqH2I\/AAAAAAAAAUU\/dqSwL7UJ_gk\/s1600-h\/neuchwanstein_castle2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 241px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/Sau8vQjqH2I\/AAAAAAAAAUU\/dqSwL7UJ_gk\/s320\/neuchwanstein_castle2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The Bavarian town of Mindelheim has devised a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophiepreis.de\/\">new literary prize<\/a> (E5,000) for books that encourage young adults to think and question. The prize is awarded by a jury made up of seven 17-18 year olds from the local school, plus a teacher and advisor. They selected from a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophiepreis.de\/autoren.html\">about 100 books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, amazingly, I won \u2013 for the German version of <span style=\"font-style:italic\">The Philosophy Gym.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I am off to Bavaria in May for 3 days, with my wife, as the guests of Mindelheim and to collect my prize. It\u2019s going to be a very surreal experience, as I am told there will be an evening in my honour with a laudatory speech by a former Bavarian arts and education Minister, plus champagne, a band, and \u201cfire show\u201d in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindelheim.de\/webcam\/webcam.html\">town square<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also asked if I could arrange to see the amazing Neuschwanstein castle, which I\u2019ve always wanted to see since watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a kid \u2013 and they\u2019re pleased to take us.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I\u2019m pretty thrilled to receive any sort of prize, but I should add it\u2019s actually a really good idea of Mindelheim\u2019s to come up with this award \u2013I wish it great future success. There\u2019s nothing remotely like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bavarian town of Mindelheim has devised a new literary prize (E5,000) for books that encourage young adults to think and question. The prize is awarded by a jury made up of seven 17-18 year olds from the local school, plus a teacher and advisor. They selected from a list of about 100 books. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}