{"id":42033,"date":"2003-10-26T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/10\/26\/being-the-nobel-peace-prize\/"},"modified":"2003-10-26T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T01:19:00","slug":"being-the-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031026-00\/?p=42033","title":{"rendered":"Being the Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         For Hallowe&#8217;en this year, I&#8217;m going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobel.se\/peace\/\">the         Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>. (I like being things that people would never         even think of as a possible Hallowe&#8217;en costume. Last year, I was an inter-office envelope.         People addressed me from place to place.)      <\/p>\n<p>         I chose the Nobel Peace Prize in part because I&#8217;m studying Swedish so I thought it         would be fun to be something Swedish.          Except that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobel.no\/\">the Nobel Peace Prize is Norwegian<\/a>!         Oh, the horror!      <\/p>\n<p>         But what&#8217;s done is done. I already made the medal and have started making the diploma,         but I hit a snag: Whose name should be on the Prize?      <\/p>\n<p>         I could go historical and reproduce the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobel.se\/peace\/laureates\/2002\/carter-diploma.html\">2002         Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Jimmy Carter<\/a>. (He&#8217;s my favorite of the recent Peace         Prize recipients.)      <\/p>\n<p>         Or I could go surreal and create an imaginary award to be bestowed upon Jennifer Lopez         or maybe David Hasselhoff.      <\/p>\n<p>         Or I could just leave the space blank and invite people to nominate a winner.      <\/p>\n<p>         My other problem is making the check for SEK 10,000,000. I asked my friend in Sweden         what a check looks like and he says he&#8217;s never seen one. He doesn&#8217;t know anybody who         actually writes checks. The closest I could find is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrs.se\/2002\/sthlmsmassan_donation.htm\">this         novelty check<\/a> but it doesn&#8217;t look very convincing. (There&#8217;s no bank name or check number, for         example.)  So I&#8217;m asking you for help. Can somebody describe what a Swedish check looks like?      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Hallowe&#8217;en this year, I&#8217;m going to be the Nobel Peace Prize. (I like being things that people would never even think of as a possible Hallowe&#8217;en costume. Last year, I was an inter-office envelope. People addressed me from place to place.) I chose the Nobel Peace Prize in part because I&#8217;m studying Swedish so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-42033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>For Hallowe&#8217;en this year, I&#8217;m going to be the Nobel Peace Prize. (I like being things that people would never even think of as a possible Hallowe&#8217;en costume. Last year, I was an inter-office envelope. People addressed me from place to place.) I chose the Nobel Peace Prize in part because I&#8217;m studying Swedish so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}