{"id":187,"date":"2006-10-05T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2006\/10\/06\/I+Would+Like+To+Thank+The+Academy"},"modified":"2006-10-05T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T04:18:06","slug":"i-would-like-to-thank-the-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/i-would-like-to-thank-the-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Would Like to Thank the Academy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was informed that I have received&nbsp;a <a href=\"https:\/\/mvp.support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx\">Microsoft MVP award<\/a>&nbsp;for Visual Studio &#8211; Solutions Architect. You can check out my profile on the MVP site <a href=\"https:\/\/mvp.support.microsoft.com\/profile=6C7EDB51-B26B-4CA8-970F-B19616F2B643\">here<\/a>. I would like to thank everyone, my wife and children especially,&nbsp;for all the support and encouragement over the years. A special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumbersatwork.com\/\">my fellow plumbers<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jbristowe\">John Bristowe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/bsimser\/\">Bil Simser<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dansellers\/\">Dan Sellers<\/a>), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryug.net\/\">Calgary .NET User Group<\/a> (big kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpboodhoo.com\/\">Jean-Paul Boodhoo<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/geekswithblogs.net\/DanielCarbajal\/\">Daniel Carbajal<\/a>), and the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmug.com\/\">EDMUG crew<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/igloocoder.com\/\">Donald Belcham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stevenrockarts.com\/blog\/\">Stephen Rockarts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/graysmatter.codivation.com\/\">Justice Gray<\/a>, Steve Yang, and Brad Daoust). Enjoy the link love, guys! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/downloads\/smile5.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was informed that I have received&nbsp;a Microsoft MVP award&nbsp;for Visual Studio &#8211; Solutions Architect. You can check out my profile on the MVP site here. I would like to thank everyone, my wife and children especially,&nbsp;for all the support and encouragement over the years. A special thanks to my fellow plumbers (John Bristowe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}