{"id":2268,"date":"2007-12-21T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/times_person_of\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T00:42:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:42:52","slug":"times_person_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/times_person_of\/","title":{"rendered":"TIme&#8217;s Person Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Time<\/em> choses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/2007\/personoftheyear\/article\/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1690766,00.html\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> as it&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;<br \/>\nPredictably, the typical cast of right wing media stars is complaining about the selection.  Essentially, their objection to Putin boils down to this: he&#8217;s not pro-American.<br \/>\n<em>Time&#8217;s<\/em> stated criterion for the award is straightforward; it&#8217;s given to <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet rightist can&#8217;t seem to accept simply recognizing a world news maker.  They instead view the selection as an award that should be bestowed on one of conservative America&#8217;s heroes.  They apparently need every media outlet to validate their world view.<br \/>\nThis phenomenon was most pronounced in 2001.  Clearly Osama bin Laden was the person who had the greatest impact on world events.  But  political correctness prevented <em>Time<\/em> from selecting an anti-American figure, so it picked Rudolph Giuliani instead.<br \/>\nBy the way, <em>Time<\/em> has archived all of its Persons of the Year (1927-2007) covers (with the articles) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2007\/poy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/12\/times_person_of\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to TIme&#8217;s Person Of The Year\"><p>Time choses Vladimir Putin as it&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221; Predictably, the typical cast of right wing media stars is complaining about the selection. Essentially, their objection to Putin boils down to this: he&#8217;s not pro-American. Time&#8217;s stated criterion for the award is straightforward; it&#8217;s given to &#8220;the person or persons who most affected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}