{"id":122,"date":"2004-06-03T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2004-06-03T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T21:52:17","slug":"just-one-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/03\/just-one-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one question . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandra Polier says that all that nonsense about her having an affair with John Kerry is wrong in today’s Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n

I met Kerry for the first time in January 2001, in Davos, Switzerland. I was living in Manhattan, stop-gapping at a public-relations firm and wondering if my application to the Columbia University graduate school of journalism was going to be accepted. At heart, I was a politics junkie. I would scour the Economist, cutting out articles for my “current affairs” scrapbook. I had also spent several months distributing emergency supplies in Kosovo and a year working as a researcher in the House of Commons. (In an ironic nod to Lewinsky, my boss, Nick Harvey, a Liberal MP, cheerfully referred to me as “the American intern”.) I recall one Wednesday afternoon stumbling across Tony Blair and a minister chatting quietly down an obscure corridor. “Hello,” Blair said, smiling. It was more exciting than meeting Brad Pitt. To me, politicians were the ultimate celebrities.<\/p>\n

In January 2001, I cadged a ticket to the World Economic Forum in Davos. I was wandering around the main complex during a gala event when I spotted Kerry at the bar. I had just read an article about potential Democratic candidates for 2004, which concluded that Kerry stood a chance of beating Bush. I walked over and introduced myself.<\/i><\/p>\n

I just have one question: I got into Columbia, and I’ve shaken hands with John Kerry — how do I<\/i> get a ticket to Davos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexandra Polier says that all that nonsense about her having an affair with John Kerry is wrong in today’s Guardian. I met Kerry for the first time in January 2001, in Davos, Switzerland. I was living in Manhattan, stop-gapping at a public-relations firm and wondering if my application to the Columbia University graduate school of journalism was going to be accepted. At heart, I was a politics junkie. I would scour the Economist, cutting out articles for my “current affairs”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}