{"id":1104754,"date":"2020-10-09T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1104754"},"modified":"2020-10-09T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:24:20","slug":"whitey-ford-hall-of-fame-ace-for-mighty-yankees-died-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1104754","title":{"rendered":"Whitey Ford, Hall of Fame ace for mighty Yankees, died at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/whitey-ford-91-pitcher-who-epitomized-mighty-yankees-dies\/19328320\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2020\/10\/09\/19328340\/media_5be1e071a4df4ba89a8695e619c6176f-DMID1-5ogoibfqf-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Whitey_Ford_04180\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>During an era when the Yankees won the World Series so routinely it was joked that rooting for them was like rooting for General Motors, their ace pitcher owned the most fitting nickname: \u201cThe Chairman of the Board.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/whitey-ford-91-pitcher-who-epitomized-mighty-yankees-dies\/19328320\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/whitey-ford-91-pitcher-who-epitomized-mighty-yankees-dies\/19328320\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Whitey Ford, Hall of Fame ace for mighty Yankees, died at 91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an era when the Yankees won the World Series so routinely it was joked that rooting for them was like rooting for General Motors, their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}