{"id":788,"date":"2009-12-03T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-03T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:14:22","slug":"vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/MIPY.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MIPY.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/MIPY-thumb-280x210-9835.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"210\" width=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#8216;Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups, and the most exciting that we have around here is our 10th (!) annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Inspiration\/Most-Inspiring-2009.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Most Inspiring Person of the Year<\/a> award, or MIPY, as we call it for short (and yes, we do pronounce it <i>MIH-pee<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s cadre of nominees is really special, from Michael J. Fox for being the paragon of a graceful fighter against Parkinson&#8217;s Disease to Capt. Chesley &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger for bringing that flight safely down into the Hudson, to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/brain-break-creative-wedding-processional.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jill and Kevin<\/a> for using the feel-good mojo from their sensational YouTube wedding dance as a force for charitable good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Inspiration\/Most-Inspiring-2009.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">We invite you to click through and be inspired&#8211;and more importantly, vote for your favorite!<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You can vote once every day until December 12, at which point the Beliefnet editors will meet to choose the winner from among the 3 candidates with the most votes.&nbsp; Wish we could invite you to that meeting, it&#8217;s big, inspiring fun!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><strong>Like what you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=FreshLiving&amp;amp;loc=en_US\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong> and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day<\/strong><\/span><br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups, and the most exciting that we have at Beliefnet is our 10th (!) annual Most Inspiring Person of the Year award, or MIPY, as we call it for short (and yes, we do pronounce it MIH-pee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-inspiration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009! - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009! - Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#039;Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups, and the most exciting that we have at Beliefnet is our 10th (!) annual Most Inspiring Person of the Year award, or MIPY, as we call it for short (and yes, we do pronounce it MIH-pee).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-03T13:14:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/MIPY-thumb-280x210-9835.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"hrossi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009! - Fresh Living","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009! - Fresh Living","og_description":"'Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups, and the most exciting that we have at Beliefnet is our 10th (!) annual Most Inspiring Person of the Year award, or MIPY, as we call it for short (and yes, we do pronounce it MIH-pee).","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html","og_site_name":"Fresh Living","article_published_time":"2009-12-03T13:14:22+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/MIPY-thumb-280x210-9835.jpg"}],"author":"hrossi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html","name":"Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009! - Fresh Living","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/MIPY-thumb-280x210-9835.jpg","datePublished":"2009-12-03T13:14:22+00:00","dateModified":"2009-12-03T13:14:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/#\/schema\/person\/168fb6fdfd4f4d1a2e41e628b308b687"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/MIPY-thumb-280x210-9835.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/files\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/MIPY-thumb-280x210-9835.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/vote-most-inspiring-person-of-2009.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vote: Most Inspiring Person of 2009!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/","name":"Fresh Living","description":"Holistic, Health and Wellness","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/#\/schema\/person\/168fb6fdfd4f4d1a2e41e628b308b687","name":"hrossi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/b92\/b928efbbb02076837659d614a160f471x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/b92\/b928efbbb02076837659d614a160f471x96.jpg","caption":"hrossi"},"description":"Holly Lebowitz Rossi is Beliefnet's Health and Relationships Editor. A graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Divinity School, she has more than a decade of experience writing about religion and spirituality for Newsweek, The Washington Post, Spa Finder, Sojourners, Search, and many other publications. Her commentaries have also been heard on NPR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Things Considered.\" When not at her desk, you can find her baking, in her garden, or rockin' out in water aerobics class. She lives in Arlington, Mass. Visit http:\/\/www.hollyrossi.com for more.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/author\/hrossi"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}