{"id":186,"date":"2006-12-15T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/15\/salons-person-of-the-year-sr-sidarth\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:59:00","slug":"salons-person-of-the-year-sr-sidarth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/15\/salons-person-of-the-year-sr-sidarth\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon&#8217;s Person of the Year: S.R. Sidarth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite sure if it merits Man of the Year, but Salon makes a solid case for Virginia&#8217;s own:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It must be said that the young man, Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth, is not much of a cameraman. In the macaca footage, his hand shakes, though he manages to hold Allen in the frame as the senator points him out, an Indian-American in a crowd of whites. But in the weeks that follow, Sidarth does not shy from the spotlight that surrounds him. He undergoes a transformation of sorts, appearing on CNN and the network news, giving long interviews to the pen-and-paper press. He becomes a symbol of politics in the 21st century, a brave new world in which any video clip can be broadcast instantly everywhere and any 20-year-old with a camera can change the world. He builds a legacy out of happenstance.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2006\/12\/16\/sidarth\/print.html\">rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite sure if it merits Man of the Year, but Salon makes a solid case for Virginia&#8217;s own: It must be said that the young man, Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth, is not much of a cameraman. In the macaca footage, his hand shakes, though he manages to hold Allen in the frame as the senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}