{"id":10901,"date":"2019-09-09T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:35:01","slug":"depressing-lede-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10901","title":{"rendered":"Depressing lede of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The Secretary of Commerce <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">threatened to fire top employees at NOAA<\/span> on Friday after the agency\u2019s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump\u2019s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">three<\/span> people familiar with the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>That threat led to <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">an unusual, unsigned statement<\/span> later that Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">disavowing the office\u2019s own position that Alabama was not at risk<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/09\/climate\/hurrican-dorian-trump-tweet.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>#DefendReality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency\u2019s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump\u2019s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion. That threat led to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10901\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10903,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/10903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}