{"id":280869,"date":"2016-06-08T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=280869"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:22:22","slug":"muhammad-ali-wasnt-always-the-greatest-at-sponsorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=280869","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali wasn&#8217;t always &#8216;The Greatest&#8217; at sponsorships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/muhammad-ali-wasn-t-always-the-greatest-at-sponsorships\/15761847\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/boxing\/2016\/06\/08\/15761847\/15761848-1465398578-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Muhammad Ali-Sponsorships\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest athletes of all time, but he didn&#8217;t cash in during his prime the way you&#8217;d expect today. Product endorsements deals for the boxer were scarce, and in fact his most notable commercial during his earlier years was for a roach trap . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/muhammad-ali-wasn-t-always-the-greatest-at-sponsorships\/15761847\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/muhammad-ali-wasn-t-always-the-greatest-at-sponsorships\/15761847\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Muhammad Ali wasn&#039;t always &#039;The Greatest&#039; at sponsorships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest athletes of all time, but he didn&#8217;t cash in during his prime the way you&#8217;d expect today. Product endorsements&#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-280869","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\/280869","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=280869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}