{"id":17,"date":"2007-02-27T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dorstmediaworks.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-11-30T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T05:01:09","slug":"convenient-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/blog\/2007\/02\/27\/convenient-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenient Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better time to inaugurate this commentary at the crossroads of documentary film and international relations than the day after the Oscars. And finally a documentary that moved people as much or more than the feature category. Al Gore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\"><i>An Inconvenient Truth<\/i><\/a>, directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0346550\/\">Davis Guggenheim<\/a>, won best doc feature: a great follow-up for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/genres\/chart\/?id=documentary.htm\">third-highest grossing documentary<\/a> of all time. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/24\/AR2007022401586.html\">Washington Post<\/a> got in the act, spreading the love the &#8220;Goracle&#8217;s&#8221; way! And why not? After a bitter 2000, Gore could&#8217;ve gone a lot of directions. He took the high road. And at least in Washington DC where I live, the film&#8217;s message has become doctrine. Nobody&#8217;s disputing it. I just hope the film&#8217;s success helps pave the way for increasing American leadership in innovative climate policy. There&#8217;s a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation.org\/xp\/CIWEB\/programs\/climatechange\/\">great programs<\/a> out there. We need to get moving on a number of them. And as for Al Gore: thanks, man, for sticking with it. We Americans love second acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better time to inaugurate this commentary at the crossroads of documentary film and international relations than the day after the Oscars. And finally a documentary that moved people as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[8,7,5,6],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching-docs","tag-al-gore","tag-climate-change","tag-documentary","tag-inconvenient-truth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedorst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}