{"id":339707,"date":"2016-07-19T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=339707"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:05:44","slug":"chief-zee-redskins-fan-has-died-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=339707","title":{"rendered":"Chief Zee, Redskins fan has died: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins did not have an official team mascot, but Zema Williams was the closest thing to it.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, better known as Chief Zee, died in his sleep on Monday night, according to NBC Washington.<\/p>\n<p>A mainstay at Redskins games since 1978, Chief Zee wore a faux headdress and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/19\/redskins-fan-chief-zee-has-died-report\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/19\/redskins-fan-chief-zee-has-died-report\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Chief Zee, Redskins fan has died: report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Redskins did not have an official team mascot, but Zema Williams was the closest thing to it. Williams, better known as Chief Zee, died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339707","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=339707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907545,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339707\/revisions\/1907545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}