{"id":38901,"date":"2014-12-15T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38901"},"modified":"2014-12-15T00:49:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:49:18","slug":"lewis-hamilton-wins-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38901","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/sports-personality\/30456847\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2014-12-14<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Mercedes driver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/formula1\/30168481\" target=\"_blank\">won his second Formula 1 world title<\/a> this season and joined an exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers&#8217; championship at least twice.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Irish golfer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rory_McIlroy\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> was runner-up, with athlete <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jo_Pavey\">Jo Pavey<\/a> third.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was sitting there saying Rory&#8217;s going to have it,&#8221; said Hamilton, who earned 34% of the vote. &#8220;I thought it had to be someone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman won 209,920 of the 620,932 votes cast, with McIlroy getting 123,745 (20%) and Pavey 99,913 (16%)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/sports-personality\/30456847\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 BBC News 2014-12-14 Lewis Hamilton has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014. The 29-year-old Mercedes driver won his second Formula 1 world title this season and joined an exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers&#8217; championship at [&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":[8597,18759,18757,18758,7222],"class_list":["post-38901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-bbc-news","tag-jo-pavey","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901","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=38901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}