{"id":52831,"date":"2013-04-15T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52831"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:12:11","slug":"notch-the-worlds-second-most-influential-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52831-notch-the-worlds-second-most-influential-person","title":{"rendered":"Notch the world\u2019s second most influential person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine has been running an online poll to determine who is the most influential and popular person in the world, and Minecraft creator and Mojang co-founder Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson features incredibly highly on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Second, to be specific, as Notch lies just under Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who would be considered a more traditional choice in such a list, so the inclusion of Notch is quite a feat.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Notch has accumulated 156,694 votes which say he should \u201cabsolutely\u201d be featured, while only 18,694 say that he shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The voting has closed, and it\u2019s now up to the Time editors to select their final list, which will be revealed on 18 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/time100.time.com\/2013\/03\/28\/time-100-poll\/slide\/the-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">Time&#8217;s list<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\" http:\/\/time100.time.com\/2013\/03\/28\/time-100-poll\/slide\/the-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52828-battlefield-4-getting-commander-mode.html\">Battlefield 4 getting Commander Mode?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52823-nfs-underground-reboot-a-fake.html\">NFS: Underground reboot a \u201cfake\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/52819-powercolor-now-offers-the-hd7790-oc-v2.html\">PowerColor offers the HD7790 OC V2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notch tops the Time most influential list among other big names<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,9582,333,9581,879,727,9580,7787],"class_list":["post-52831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-marcus-persson","tag-minecraft","tag-minecraft-mojang","tag-mojang","tag-notch","tag-notch-developer","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52833,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52831\/revisions\/52833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}