{"id":478,"date":"2009-07-03T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/it-wasnt-even-close.html"},"modified":"2009-07-03T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T21:39:00","slug":"it-wasnt-even-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/it-wasnt-even-close.html","title":{"rendered":"It wasn’t even close"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I got a nice e-mail a short time ago, announcing the winners of the Catholic New Media Awards<\/a>. <\/p>\n

No, I didn’t win. But I did come in second. <\/p>\n

A very, very, very<\/i> distant second in the category for “Best Blog by A Cleric.” <\/p>\n

Check out the rest of the winners at the link<\/a>. My thanks to all who voted. And a hearty congrats to one and all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a nice e-mail a short time ago, announcing the winners of the Catholic New Media Awards. No, I didn’t win. But I did come in second. A very, very, very distant second in the category for “Best Blog by A Cleric.” Check out the rest of the winners at the link. My thanks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-my-world"],"yoast_head":"\nIt wasn't even close - The Deacon's Bench<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/it-wasnt-even-close.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It wasn't even close - The Deacon's Bench\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I got a nice e-mail a short time ago, announcing the winners of the Catholic New Media Awards. 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