{"id":393,"date":"2014-01-05T05:54:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=393"},"modified":"2016-07-17T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:43:00","slug":"393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/393","title":{"rendered":"Edie Windsor Comes in Third for Time&#8217;s Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Edie Windsor,<\/b> plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned DOMA, came in third this year for <i>Time\u2019s <\/i>\u201cperson of the year,\u201d following Pope Francis and Edward Snowden. She was also a finalist in the public online poll. Windsor said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored that Time chose me as one of the number 3 individuals in the top 5 nominees for\u00a0 \u2018Person of the Year,\u2019 but I am just one person who was part of the extraordinary and on-going fight for marriage equality for all our families. There are thousands of people who helped us come this far and we still have a lot more work to do. The gay community is my \u2018person of the year\u2019 and I look forward to continuing to fight for equal rights and educate the public about our lives alongside my gay brothers and sisters and our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More information about Windsor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ediewindsor.com\">Website <\/a>designed by New York-based web designer Carla Grande<\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/poy.time.com\/2013\/12\/11\/runner-up-edith-windsor-the-unlikely-activist\/\"><i>Time <\/i>magazine profil<\/a>e<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lightbox.time.com\/2013\/12\/11\/inside-the-photo-albums-of-edith-windsor-and-thea-spyer\/\">Photo album\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Award-winning, full-length documentary, <i>Edie and Thea: A Long Engagement, <\/i>created by Susan Muska and Gr\u00e9ta Olafsd\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned DOMA, came in third this year for Time\u2019s \u201cperson of the year,\u201d following Pope Francis and Edward Snowden. She was also a finalist in the public online poll. Windsor said: \u201cI am honored that Time chose me as one of the number 3 individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,59],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-people","tag-john-mack-freeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}