{"id":5274,"date":"2010-12-16T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T09:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/16\/person-of-the-year-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T09:51:57","slug":"person-of-the-year-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/16\/person-of-the-year-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of the Year, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that the Uncertain Principles Person of the Year for 2010 is&#8230; SteelyKid:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0be7ec9d307daac306e05364f7018164-sm_toddler_of_year.jpg\" alt=\"i-0be7ec9d307daac306e05364f7018164-sm_toddler_of_year.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why do I say this? Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, as lots of people will tell you, we&#8217;re all citizen journalists now. Which means that I&#8217;m every bit as entitled to declare a person of the year as <cite>Time<\/cite> magazine is.<\/p>\n<p>Second, everything in Chateau Steelypips revolves around her, so she is clearly the most important and influential person here.<\/p>\n<p>Third, she&#8217;s way cuter than Mark Zuckerberg. Granted, I don&#8217;t have a picture of Mark Zuckerberg wearing a napkin as a hat for direct comparison, but I like my odds on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you may be saying that this is just a transparent and silly excuse for posting another ridiculously cute toddler picture, and that she hasn&#8217;t really done anything to shape the wider world in the way that Zuckerberg&#8217;s invention of Facebook has. My reply to this is a simple question: What would you rather see turn up on your computer, a cute picture of SteelyKid, or yet another stupid Farmville invitation?<\/p>\n<p>I rest my case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that the Uncertain Principles Person of the Year for 2010 is&#8230; SteelyKid: Why do I say this? Well&#8230; First, as lots of people will tell you, we&#8217;re all citizen journalists now. Which means that I&#8217;m every bit as entitled to declare a person of the year as Time magazine is.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/16\/person-of-the-year-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Person of the Year, 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,2,50,37,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-personal","category-pictures","category-pop_culture","category-silliness","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}