{"id":15917,"date":"2008-11-17T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15917"},"modified":"2014-10-05T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T21:38:22","slug":"stan-lee-awarded-2008-national-medal-of-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/17\/stan-lee-awarded-2008-national-medal-of-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Lee awarded 2008 National Medal of the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Lee was at the White House this morning, where he was awarded the 2008 National Medal of the Arts. Said Laura Bush, &#8220;These medals recognize great contributions to art, music, theater, literature, history, and general scholarship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/11\/20081117-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">the official transcript of the event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>MILITARY AIDE:\tStan Lee. (Applause.)\tThe 2008 National Medal of Arts to Stan Lee, for his groundbreaking work as one of America&#8217;s most prolific storytellers, recreating the American comic book. His complex plots and humane super heroes celebrate courage, honesty, and the importance of helping the less fortunate, reflecting America&#8217;s inherent goodness.<\/p>\n<p>(The medal is presented.) (Applause.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Lee was at the White House this morning, where he was awarded the 2008 National Medal of the Arts. Said Laura Bush, &#8220;These medals recognize great contributions to art, music, theater, literature, history, and general scholarship.&#8221; According to the official transcript of the event: MILITARY AIDE: Stan Lee. (Applause.) The 2008 National Medal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-15917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15918,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917\/revisions\/15918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}