{"id":6982,"date":"2016-06-08T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/06\/08\/what-happened-to-the-muhammad-ali-i-idolized-blackistone-asks\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T09:10:00","slug":"what-happened-to-the-muhammad-ali-i-idolized-blackistone-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/what-happened-to-the-muhammad-ali-i-idolized-blackistone-asks\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To The Muhammad  Ali I Idolized, Blackistone Asks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, sports commentator Kevin Blackistone idolized Muhammad Ali. With Ali&#8217;s death last week, he wonders why the man he sees in the obituaries is so different than the Ali he remembers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/06\/08\/481206903\/what-happened-to-the-mohammad-ali-i-idolized-blackistone-asks?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"What Happened To The Muhammad  Ali I Idolized, Blackistone Asks\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/06\/08\/481206903\/what-happened-to-the-mohammad-ali-i-idolized-blackistone-asks?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, sports commentator Kevin Blackistone idolized Muhammad Ali. With Ali&#8217;s death last week, he wonders why the man he sees in the obituaries is so different than the Ali he remembers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}