{"id":49856,"date":"2018-12-12T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=49856"},"modified":"2018-12-12T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:01:09","slug":"khashoggi-other-persecuted-journalists-named-time-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/khashoggi-other-persecuted-journalists-named-time-person-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Khashoggi, other persecuted journalists named Time &#8216;Person of the Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York<br \/>\nSaudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country&#8217;s Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; Tuesday, an honour he shared with other persecuted journalists dubbed as &#8220;guardians&#8221; of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Among those named with Kashoggi were Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo-currently imprisoned in Myanmar-and the staff of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, including five members killed in a June shooting.Time, which has awarded the &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; title annually since 1927, published four different magazine covers for this week&#8217;s edition, each one spotlighting different honourees.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time someone has been chosen posthumously for the prestigious cover.US President Donald Trump, the 2016 &#8220;Person of the Year,&#8221; was the bookmakers&#8217; favorite this year but in the end was runner-up.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country&#8217;s Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; Tuesday, an honour he shared with other persecuted journalists dubbed as &#8220;guardians&#8221; of the truth. Among those named with Kashoggi were Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49858,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49856\/revisions\/49858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}