{"id":11856,"date":"2007-08-18T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/norman-borlaug-greatest-living-american\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:13:00","slug":"norman-borlaug-greatest-living-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/norman-borlaug-greatest-living-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Borlaug: Greatest Living American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Easterbrook of <i>The Huffington Post<\/i> writes that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/gregg-easterbrook\/greatest-living-american-_b_56665.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;greatest living American&rdquo; was all but ignored<\/a> by the mainstream press when he was recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, America&rsquo;s highest civilian award.  I&rsquo;ll admit that I had no idea who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Borlaug\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Borlaug<\/a> was before I read more about him, and it&rsquo;s quite a pity that more people don&rsquo;t know about this Nobel Peace Prize Winner, one of only two living American-born laureates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-2956350342325825876?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Easterbrook of The Huffington Post writes that the &ldquo;greatest living American&rdquo; was all but ignored by the mainstream press when he was recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, America&rsquo;s highest civilian award. I&rsquo;ll admit that I had no idea who Norman Borlaug was before I read more about him, and it&rsquo;s quite a pity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/norman-borlaug-greatest-living-american\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Norman Borlaug: Greatest Living American?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}