{"id":419,"date":"2007-10-12T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-10-12T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:50:25","slug":"congratulations-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnfr.com\/misc\/gore.jpg\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess he&#8217;s transcended all that now.<br \/>\n<P>And congratulations also to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\">United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a>. They are doing great work on this subject, and the award is well-deserved.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> When thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views01\/1115-01.htm\">what might have been<\/a>, and pondering <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/055785.php\">what we have instead<\/a>, it&#8217;s always worth revisiting Jim Capozzola&#8217;s classic essay <a href=\"http:\/\/rittenhouse.blogspot.com\/2002\/11\/al-gore-and-alpha-girls-enduring-power.html\">Al Gore and the Alpha Girls &#8211; The Enduring Power of Cliques in a Post-High-School World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I guess he&#8217;s transcended all that now. And congratulations also to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are doing great work on this subject, and the award is well-deserved. UPDATE: When thinking about what might have been, and pondering what we have instead, it&#8217;s always worth revisiting Jim Capozzola&#8217;s classic essay Al Gore and the Alpha Girls &#8211; The Enduring Power of Cliques in a Post-High-School World.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=419\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-6L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}