{"id":894195,"date":"2020-01-28T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=894195"},"modified":"2020-01-28T08:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:08:53","slug":"simmons-for-sports-photographer-father-bryants-death-resurfaces-memories-of-other-greats-gone-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=894195","title":{"rendered":"Simmons: For sports photographer, father, Bryant&#8217;s death resurfaces memories of other greats gone too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/simmons-for-sports-photographer-father-bryant-s-death-resurfaces-memories-of-other-greats-gone-too-soon\/18914310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2020\/01\/27\/18911547\/media_4ee134c4abe64ab4968f8e223be14356-DMID1-5lnexn2fm-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit-Bryant_Basketball_47565\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After learning Sunday that Kobe Bryant had died at the age of 41, I started to reflect on all the chaos from the day, and it took me back to similar events with athletes that I&#8217;ve covered in my time in local news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/simmons-for-sports-photographer-father-bryant-s-death-resurfaces-memories-of-other-greats-gone-too-soon\/18914310\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/simmons-for-sports-photographer-father-bryant-s-death-resurfaces-memories-of-other-greats-gone-too-soon\/18914310\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Simmons: For sports photographer, father, Bryant&#039;s death resurfaces memories of other greats gone too soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After learning Sunday that Kobe Bryant had died at the age of 41, I started to reflect on all the chaos from the day, and it&#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-894195","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\/894195","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=894195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}