{"id":936730,"date":"2020-04-05T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=936730"},"modified":"2020-04-05T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T18:12:09","slug":"ex-nfl-kicker-saints-hero-tom-dempsey-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=936730","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL kicker, Saints hero Tom Dempsey dies at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ex-nfl-kicker-saints-hero-tom-dempsey-dies-at-73\/19043207\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2020\/04\/05\/19043296\/5e8a005f6539b-media_6813e9cb8fbc4791aad3730350533a7b-DMID1-5megbwbtb-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Tom_Dempsey_55203\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey, who played in the NFL despite being born without toes on his kicking foot and made a record 63-yard field goal, died late Saturday while struggling with complications from the new coronavirus, his daughter said. He was 73. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ex-nfl-kicker-saints-hero-tom-dempsey-dies-at-73\/19043207\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/ex-nfl-kicker-saints-hero-tom-dempsey-dies-at-73\/19043207\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ex-NFL kicker, Saints hero Tom Dempsey dies at 73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey, who played in the NFL despite being born without toes on his kicking foot and made a record 63-yard field goal,&#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-936730","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\/936730","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=936730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}