{"id":1511055,"date":"2021-11-29T11:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1511055"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:53:04","slug":"lee-elder-1st-black-golfer-to-play-masters-dies-at-age-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1511055","title":{"rendered":"Lee Elder, 1st Black golfer to play Masters, dies at age 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/lee-elder-1st-black-golfer-to-play-masters-dies-at-age-87\/20007650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2021\/04\/08\/19616941\/606f551bbccdd-4d8d87a1-af48-40c4-b85a-d1b99eebc0c1-DMID1-5qgkjl47u-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"At the Masters, Lee Elder Gets Another Moment in the Spotlight\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lee Elder, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow, has died at the age of 87. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/lee-elder-1st-black-golfer-to-play-masters-dies-at-age-87\/20007650\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/lee-elder-1st-black-golfer-to-play-masters-dies-at-age-87\/20007650\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Lee Elder, 1st Black golfer to play Masters, dies at age 87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Elder, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others&#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-1511055","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\/1511055","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=1511055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}