{"id":38899,"date":"2014-12-15T00:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38899"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:49:25","slug":"lewis-hamiltons-lack-of-popularity-is-it-cos-he-is-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38899","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton\u2019s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/nov\/24\/lewis-hamilton-lack-popularity-black-formula-1-champion\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lewis Hamilton\u2019s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\nLondon, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2014-11-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephharker\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joseph Harker<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Comment Editor<\/p>\n<p><em>The Formula One champion doesn\u2019t seem to earn the plaudits other successful British sports people do, but the criticism of him is ludicrous<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> became the first British driver in more than 40 years to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formula_One\" target=\"_blank\">Formula One<\/a> drivers\u2019 championship twice. It was a year in which he won 11 of the 19 races, and sealed the title with victory in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Dhabi\" target=\"_blank\">Abu Dhabi<\/a>. This is an amazing achievement for a boy from a humble background in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stevenage\" target=\"_blank\">Stevenage, Hertfordshire<\/a>, whose parents split up when he was just two years old. Highlighting how exceptional a story this is, his closest rival, teammate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nico_Rosberg\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Rosberg<\/a>, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keke_Rosberg\" target=\"_blank\">son of a former F1 champion<\/a> and was raised in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monaco\" target=\"_blank\">Monaco<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBPBrJ74C8I?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/nov\/24\/lewis-hamilton-lack-popularity-black-formula-1-champion\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton\u2019s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-24 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor The Formula One champion doesn\u2019t seem to earn the plaudits other successful British sports people do, but the criticism of him is ludicrous Yesterday Lewis Hamilton became the first British driver in more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[7196,18757,7222,2103],"class_list":["post-38899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-joseph-harker","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51651,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899\/revisions\/51651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}