{"id":419,"date":"2019-05-08T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/?p=419"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:48:50","slug":"rising-is-a-finalist-for-the-pulitzer-prize-in-general-nonfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"RISING is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a week and a half ago I was out having lunch with some dear old friends. After we supped on ceviche and fresh fish, Felipe took them sightseeing and I headed back home to finish my work for the day. When I walked into the apartment I realized I had missed a call from my editor, the fabulous Joey McGarvey. Her message was ebullient: RISING had just been\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/elizabethrush.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ab22bde26db93fb814ab087c7&amp;id=f1d8092651&amp;e=0d35919a36\" target=\"_blank\">named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction!<\/a> I was, as I am sure you can imagine, completely over-the-moon. I paced the apartment end-to-end for a couple hours, calling those who had lent their testimony to RISING and those whose love and support made this project possible. Now I am telling you all to share in the joy that is being named a finalist for such an incredible prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"520\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PulitzerLogo-1024x520.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PulitzerLogo-1024x520.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PulitzerLogo-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PulitzerLogo-768x390.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PulitzerLogo.jpeg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week and a half ago I was out having lunch with some dear old friends. After we supped on ceviche and fresh fish, Felipe took them sightseeing and I headed back home to finish my work for the day. When I walked into the apartment I realized I had missed a call from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/?p=419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RISING is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}