{"id":238486,"date":"2019-09-12T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238486"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:13:41","slug":"nobel-secretary-regrets-obama-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/nobel-secretary-regrets-obama-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>If it\u2019s true, why not canceling it?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.<\/p>\n<p>Geir Lundestad told the AP news agency that the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Many argued he had not had any impact worthy of the award.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lundestad, writing in his memoir, Secretary of Peace, said even Mr Obama himself had been surprised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama,&#8221; Mr Lundestad writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even many of Obama&#8217;s supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,&#8221; he says. &#8220;In that sense the committee didn&#8217;t achieve what it had hoped for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-34277960?SThisFB&amp;fbclid=IwAR1f-zT3XGtK_5CpAqoJMY7AIv1An0wwBiVzkMkPOjF172-aXcaRcwH58jI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-34277960?SThisFB&amp;fbclid=IwAR1f-zT3XGtK_5CpAqoJMY7AIv1An0wwBiVzkMkPOjF172-aXcaRcwH58jI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: If it\u2019s true, why not canceling it? &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}