{"id":195,"date":"2007-10-12T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-10-12T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:48:19","slug":"everybody-hearts-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/everybody-hearts-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Hearts Al"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congrats to the Goremeister from your pal Greg.<\/p>\n

The best comment I’ve seen thus far on Gore’s Peace Prize win comes from Fausta’s blog<\/a>, forwarded by a friend:<\/p>\n

The coy former Vice-President may run for president again, may choose to stay home admiring his Oscar, Emmy, and Nobel, or may do a one-man show on Broadway, which may in turn win him a Tony award, thus outdoing Rita Moreno<\/a>, who hasn’t won a Nobel Peace Prize yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, for the record, I’ve always believed two seemingly contradictory statements: a) Gore’s heart is in the right place and he’s using his stature for a noble purpose b) He’s going to use global warming as a springboard to jump back into politics.<\/p>\n

Also, while I’m not a Swedish committee, I think, as general a guideline for awarding Peace Prize, action trumps intent. The 2006 award winners<\/a> provide a good example of that.<\/p>\n

I think Gore deserves kudos, pats on the back or whatever little gold trophies you have out there. But the get-check tells me he’s not Peace Prize material. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

A note to the Bumese monks, the Nobel race isn’t like the Oscars. You can’t screen just before the cut-off date and expect consideration from the academy. Too little, too late my be-robed friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congrats to the Goremeister from your pal Greg. The best comment I’ve seen thus far on Gore’s Peace Prize win comes from Fausta’s blog, forwarded by a friend: The coy former Vice-President may run for president again, may choose to stay home admiring his Oscar, Emmy, and Nobel, or may do a one-man show on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-39","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}