{"id":811500,"date":"2019-07-15T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T03:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=811500"},"modified":"2019-07-15T23:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T03:03:33","slug":"pernell-whitaker-champion-in-four-boxing-classes-dies-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=811500","title":{"rendered":"Pernell Whitaker, Champion in Four Boxing Classes, Dies at 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pernell Whitaker, a left-handed defensive master in the boxing ring who won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and became a champion in four weight classes as a professional, was killed Sunday when he was struck by a car in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was 55. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/pernell-whitaker-champion-in-four-boxing-classes-dies-at-55\/18512417\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/pernell-whitaker-champion-in-four-boxing-classes-dies-at-55\/18512417\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Pernell Whitaker, Champion in Four Boxing Classes, Dies at 55\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pernell Whitaker, a left-handed defensive master in the boxing ring who won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and became a champion in&#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-811500","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\/811500","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=811500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}