{"id":1240,"date":"2006-06-10T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2006-06-10T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T13:29:31","slug":"its_the_end_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The End Of The World As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>Since my favorite way to spend a Saturday is to contemplate the myriad ways the human race could destroy itself, I&#8217;m meeting a friend later today to see Al Gore&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0497116\/\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/A>.&nbsp; For a documentary, it&#8217;s pulled in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/biz\/2006\/06\/truth_convenien.html\">surprisingly large fistfuls of cash<\/A>.&nbsp; Like most progressives, I like the new, improved Al Gore, who seems to have rediscovered that fire in his belly.&nbsp; If only we had seen this man in the 2000 presidential race.&nbsp; But I think there&#8217;s an outside chance we might see him in &#8217;08.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my favorite way to spend a Saturday is to contemplate the myriad ways the human race could destroy itself, I&#8217;m meeting a friend later today to see Al Gore&#8217;s An Inconvenient Truth.&nbsp; For a documentary, it&#8217;s pulled in surprisingly large fistfuls of cash.&nbsp; Like most progressives, I like the new, improved Al Gore, who <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1240' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-k0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}