{"id":963,"date":"2015-04-28T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:47:09","slug":"schubert-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/04\/28\/schubert-withdraws\/","title":{"rendered":"Schubert Withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund R. Schubert, the editor of ORSON SCOTT CARD&#8217;S INTERGALACTIC MEDICINE SHOW, has announced his decision to withdraw from the Hugo race.  Schubert was a nominee in the category Best Editor, Short Form.  He had been included on both the Sad Puppy and Rabid Puppy slates, though apparently without his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>He has issued a statement explaining the reasons for his withdrawal, which you can read here:<br \/>http:\/\/aletheakontis.com\/2015\/04\/in-which-edmund-schubert-withdraws-from-the-hugos\/<\/p>\n<p>Sasquan had previously announced that the Hugo ballot in now at the printers, so Schubert&#8217;s name will still appear, but he has indicated that he will refuse the award, should he win it.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the reasons for his withdrawal and applaud his integrity.  It cannot be easy to walk away from a major award, perhaps one that you have dreamed of someday winning.  And this takes courage as well; like the others who have dropped off the Puppy slate, he will undoubtedly come in for a certain amount of angry barking from the kennels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund R. Schubert, the editor of ORSON SCOTT CARD&#8217;S INTERGALACTIC MEDICINE SHOW, has announced his decision to withdraw from the Hugo race. Schubert was a nominee in the category Best Editor, Short Form. He had been included on both the Sad Puppy and Rabid Puppy slates, though apparently without his knowledge. He has issued a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,40],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}