{"id":2514,"date":"2009-12-19T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/google-guys-lose-to-president-bush-in-weirdest-bracket-ever-wtf\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:40:00","slug":"google-guys-lose-to-president-bush-in-weirdest-bracket-ever-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/google-guys-lose-to-president-bush-in-weirdest-bracket-ever-wtf.php","title":{"rendered":"Google Guys Lose to President Bush in Weirdest Bracket Ever [Wtf]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2009\/12\/screen_shot_2009-12-18_at_4.47.00_pm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2833_500x_screen_shot_2009-12-18_at_4.47.00_pm.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #washingtonpost\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/washingtonpost\/\">Washington Post<\/a> has this bizarre Final-Four style bracket to determine the \"<a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #mostinfluentialpersonofthedecade\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/mostinfluentialpersonofthedecade\/\">most influential person of the decade<\/a>,\" and with President Bush's defeat of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, all the tech figures are now out of the race. Lame.<\/p><p>Previously, Osama Bin Laden knocked out Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and President Obama defeated Steve Jobs, but the Google Duo held out until the semifinals, when President Bush liberated them. That is officially the oddest sentence I have ever written. Way to go, Washington Post. This is incredibly weird. 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Lame.Previously, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/google-guys-lose-to-president-bush-in-weirdest-bracket-ever-wtf.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}