{"id":920,"date":"2012-10-05T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/05\/high-altitude-to-blame"},"modified":"2012-10-05T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:20:00","slug":"high-altitude-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"High altitude to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/260373-gore-suggests-high-altitude-to-blame-for-obama-debate-performance\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/260373-gore-suggests-high-altitude-to-blame-for-obama-debate-performance\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/260373-gore-suggests-high-altitude-to-blame-for-obama-debate-performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Al Gore has posited a doozy of a possible explanation for President Obama\u2019s poor debate showing.<\/p>\n<p>He says Denver\u2019s mile-high altitude might have been to blame \u2013 to which I must ask: Huh?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure Mitt Romney was on the same stage as the president the other night at the University of Denver, which would have exposed him to the very same altitude as the president. <\/p>\n<p>Is the former Massachusetts governor some kind of bionic man who is immune to these things? Probably not. <\/p>\n<p>I have much respect for the former vice president. I happen to think he\u2019s right on a lot of things, including his concerns about global warming and whether human beings\u2019 overuse of carbon fuels is at the root of its cause.<\/p>\n<p>However, he ought to refrain from nutty diagnoses about the president\u2019s poor debate performance.<\/p>\n<p>My own guess is that President Obama just didn\u2019t spend enough time getting into fighting trim. Don\u2019t expect him a repeat performance from him the next time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/260373-gore-suggests-high-altitude-to-blame-for-obama-debate-performance Former Vice President Al Gore has posited a doozy of a possible explanation for President Obama\u2019s poor debate showing. He says Denver\u2019s mile-high altitude might have been to blame \u2013 to which I must ask: Huh? I\u2019m pretty sure Mitt Romney was on the same stage as the president the other night at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High altitude to blame?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}