{"id":198893,"date":"2007-10-01T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/01\/al-oerter-dead-at-71\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:30:00","slug":"al-oerter-dead-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/01\/al-oerter-dead-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Oerter Dead at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard his name on the radio, I was thinking that maybe he was trying out for the Olympic team again, but 4 time Olympic discus champion (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968) <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.guardian.co.uk\/breakingnews\/feedstory\/0,,-6963282,00.html\">Al Oerter has died of heart failure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never followed discus, or track and field much, but for some reason, it bums me out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard his name on the radio, I was thinking that maybe he was trying out for the Olympic team again, but 4 time Olympic discus champion (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968) Al Oerter has died of heart failure. Never followed discus, or track and field much, but for some reason, it bums me &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}