{"id":26717,"date":"2017-12-06T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26717"},"modified":"2017-12-06T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:34:40","slug":"they-have-initiated-a-change-in-our-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26717","title":{"rendered":"They have initiated a change in our culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGiyac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26718\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGiyac-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGiyac-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBGiyac.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine has done it!<\/p>\n<p>The publication has hit a grand slam home run with its selection of its 2017 Person of the Year &#8212; and, no, Donald J. &#8220;Grandstander in Chief&#8221; Trump, <em>it ain&#8217;t you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It selected the Silence Breakers, the women who came forward to found a movement called &#8220;Me Too&#8221; to sound the alarm against sexual predators.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine&#8217;s cover features several women who have been at the forefront of this movement. In reality, they symbolize a much larger segment of a population that has been <em>terrorized<\/em> by powerful men.<\/p>\n<p>And the movement has inflicted plenty of casualties in this fight against sexual harassment, abuse and predation. Good &#8230; for &#8230; them!<\/p>\n<p>Media stars have tumbled off their pedestals. Politicians have fallen, too. Movie and music executives stand accused. Careers have been trashed &#8212; and deservedly so!<\/p>\n<p>Read about the Silence Breakers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-silence-breakers\/ar-BBGiyRq\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Person of the Year goes to individuals or groups of individuals who have made a profound impact on our world. It has gone to some notorious and downright evil monsters: Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollah Khomeini come to mind immediately.<\/p>\n<p>This year? The Silence Breakers symbolize maximum courage and grit in the face of a culture that for too long looked the other way as men preyed on their victims.<\/p>\n<p>Great call, Time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine has done it! The publication has hit a grand slam home run with its selection of its 2017 Person of the Year &#8212; and, no, Donald J. &#8220;Grandstander in Chief&#8221; Trump, it ain&#8217;t you! It selected the Silence Breakers, the women who came forward to found a movement called &#8220;Me Too&#8221; to sound &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They have initiated a change in our culture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7392,3556,4234,4818],"class_list":["post-26717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-me-too","tag-person-of-the-year","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26719,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26717\/revisions\/26719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}