{"id":89891,"date":"2015-12-14T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=89891"},"modified":"2015-12-14T16:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:52:49","slug":"serena-williams-s-i-s-sportsperson-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=89891","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams, S.I.&#8217;s  &#8220;Sportsperson of the Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/williamsserena1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-89989\" alt=\"williamsserena\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/williamsserena1-300x202.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/williamsserena1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/williamsserena1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/williamsserena1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/williamsserena1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Serena Williams is Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Sportsperson of the Year &#8211; the first female athlete honored on her own by the magazine in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Fichtenbaum, editor of the Sports Illustrated Group, calls Williams &#8220;a terrific candidate in a year of terrific candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams came within two matches of tennis&#8217; first Grand Slam since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Runner Mary Decker in 1983 was the last female athlete to earn the award by herself. The U.S. women&#8217;s national soccer team was picked by SI in 1999; speedskater Bonnie Blair (1994) and gymnast Mary Lou Retton (1984) were co-honorees with male Olympians.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s announcement marks a switch to the SI award&#8217;s name; past recipients were called Sportsman or Sportswoman of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Fichtenbaum calls it &#8220;the right time to make the change.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Serena Williams is Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Sportsperson of the Year &#8211; the first female athlete honored on her own by the magazine in more than 30 years. Paul Fichtenbaum, editor of the Sports Illustrated Group, calls Williams &#8220;a terrific candidate in a year of terrific candidates.&#8221; Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89896,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89891\/revisions\/89896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}