{"id":1791550,"date":"2022-12-31T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791550"},"modified":"2022-12-31T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:04:25","slug":"2022-man-of-the-year-uncle-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-man-of-the-year-uncle-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Man of The Year: Uncle Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-man-of-the-year-uncle-chen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Most of our readers are aware that the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Does not endorse participation in &#8220;marathons.&#8221; Our editorial opinion on this matter can be summarized by Kenny Powers, a baseball legend who once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=De7rbB2bteE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opined<\/a>: &#8220;I play real sports. Not trying to be the best at exercising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s suspend disbelief for a moment. Imagine you\u2019re an assistant sociology professor (non-tenure track) at Portland State University. Maybe you take a year abroad in Beijing to study the wise egalitarianism of the government of the People\u2019s Republic of China. You decide to run a marathon at Jiande, China, in order to make amends for your wife, who just left you to go to France to study with one of her Ph.D. students. It will help. &#8220;get back out there&#8221; You can lose the 45 extra pounds that you gained during COVID lockdowns. You can also take new photos to impress your future Tinder dates.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s race day, and you\u2019re halfway through the marathon when suddenly a cloud of noxious fumes envelopes you. &#8220;It\u2019s just a bit of smog,&#8221; You should tell yourself. &#8220;Part of the different, but completely justifiable, industrial norms of China that are driven by U.S. imperialism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not. It is quickly apparent that the smoke plumes are coming from a competitor, a 50-year old chain-smoking marathon runner. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2022\/11\/16\/23460817\/uncle-chen-smoking-marathon-runner-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">known<\/a> To the locals, adoringly &#8220;Uncle Chen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Chen is an expert at running marathons. He is a marathon runner and chain-smokes every step of the way. He is actually quite the contrary. &#8220;only smokes when he runs,&#8221; According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/chinese-marathon-running-chain-smoking-uncle-chen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news reports<\/a>He finished his race in three-and-a half hours. And while you spent the last two months waking up at 5 a.m. to hit the treadmill, forgoing carbs, and trading beer for sparkling water, Uncle Chen spent it sucking down unfiltered Lucky\u2019s and stacking chicks at the local teahouses, probably.<\/p>\n<p>As he whizzes ahead, it suddenly dawns on you: running isn\u2019t a substitute for having a personality. In fact, running isn\u2019t even very hard. &#8220;How does he do it?&#8221; you marvel, as crowds of women\u2014who all resemble your beautiful but unfaithful wife\u2014cheer Uncle Chen on from the sidelines. &#8220;How can I ever compete?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t. To make a mockery &#8220;marathon&#8221; Running (and probably for getting your evil, estranged woman pregnant) Uncle Chen is a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> The Man of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of our readers know, the Washington Free Beacon does not endorse participating in \u201cmarathons.\u201d Our editorial opinion on the matter is best summed up by baseball legend Kenny Powers, who once opined: \u201cI play real sports. Not trying to be the best at exercising.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post 2022 Man of the Year: Uncle Chen appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1791553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3990,4092,12178,9960,5734],"class_list":["post-1791550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-3990","tag-beacon","tag-chen","tag-uncle","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}