{"id":56613,"date":"2016-12-07T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_picks_donald_trump_as_its_person_of_the_year_2016\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:56:25","slug":"time_picks_donald_trump_as_its_person_of_the_year_2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56613","title":{"rendered":"Time Picks Donald Trump as its Person of the Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump is TIME&#39;s Person of the Year 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TIMEPOY?src=hash\">#TIMEPOY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5pTGOksevE\">https:\/\/t.co\/5pTGOksevE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N8BtqTu9Nl\">pic.twitter.com\/N8BtqTu9Nl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TIME (@TIME) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TIME\/status\/806476696257957888\">December 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even for Donald Trump, the distance is still fun to think about, up here in his penthouse 600 ft. in the sky, where it\u2019s hard to make out the regular people below. The ice skaters swarming Central Park\u2019s Wollman Rink look like old-television static, and the Fifth Avenue holiday shoppers could be mites in a gutter. To even see this view, elevator operators, who spend their days standing in place, must push a button marked 66\u201d\u201c68, announcing all three floors of Trump\u2019s princely pad. Inside, staff members wear cloth slipcovers on their shoes, so as not to scuff the shiny marble or stain the plush cream carpets.<\/p>\n<p>This is, in short, not a natural place to refine the common touch. It\u2019s gilded and gaudy, a dreamscape of faded tapestry, antique clocks and fresco-style ceiling murals of gym-rat Greek gods. The throw pillows carry the Trump shield, and the paper napkins are monogrammed with the family name. His closest neighbors, at least at this altitude, are an international set of billionaire moguls who have decided to stash their money at One57 and 432 Park, the two newest skyscrapers to remake midtown Manhattan. There is no tight-knit community in the sky, no paperboy or postman, no bowling over brews after work.<\/p>\n<p>And yet here Trump resides, under dripping crystal, with diamond cuff links, as the President-elect of the United States of America. The Secret Service agents milling about prove that it really happened, this election result few saw coming. Hulking and serious, they gingerly try to stay on the marble, avoiding the carpets with their uncovered shoes. On his wife Melania\u2019s desk, next to books of Gianni Versace\u2019s fashions and Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s jewelry, a new volume sits front and center: The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump\/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is TIME&#39;s Person of the Year 2016 #TIMEPOY https:\/\/t.co\/5pTGOksevE pic.twitter.com\/N8BtqTu9Nl &mdash; TIME (@TIME) December 7, 2016 Even for Donald Trump, the distance is still fun to think about, up here in his penthouse 600 ft. in the sky,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56613\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}