{"id":162,"date":"2007-07-01T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T01:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/01\/congratulations\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T17:48:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T01:48:34","slug":"congratulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/congratulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAPIEN&#8217;s Jeffery Hicks &#8211; my co-author for <em>Windows PowerShell: TFM, Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators, <\/em>and author of <em>WSH and VBScript Core: TFM<\/em> &#8211; was just awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award! That makes two of us in SAPIEN who&#8217;ve earned the MVP designation, and I&#8217;m delighted to welcome Jeff to the club. He&#8217;s also the third Hicks to win the award (although I&#8217;m sure the other two are distant relations at best), and the 31st Jeff, Jeffery, or Jeffrey to earn this honor. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft hasn&#8217;t updated the online MVP directory at this moment, but I&#8217;m guessing Jeff&#8217;s MVP specialization is Windows Server &#8211; Admin Frameworks, which encompasses both the MMC and Windows PowerShell; it&#8217;s possible he&#8217;s listed under Visual Developer &#8211; Scripting, although I doubt it. That&#8217;s a weird specialization and the guys in it are a bit confused as to why they&#8217;re listed as &#8220;developers.&#8221; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Congrats, Jeff! Now, back to work on that advanced PowerShell book. No rest for the honored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAPIEN&#8217;s Jeffery Hicks &#8211; my co-author for Windows PowerShell: TFM, Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators, and author of WSH and VBScript Core: TFM &#8211; was just awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award! That makes two of us in SAPIEN who&#8217;ve earned the MVP designation, and I&#8217;m delighted to welcome Jeff to the club. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}