{"id":1322,"date":"2015-12-28T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2015-12-28T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:32:41","slug":"meadowlark-lemon-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Meadowlark Lemon Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Known for his charismatic clowning and his halfcourt hook shots, Lemon was the Globetrotters\u2019 top showman for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/29\/sports\/basketball\/meadowlark-lemon-harlem-globetrotter-who-played-basketball-and-pranks-with-virtuosity-dies-at-83.html\" target=\"_blank\">Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotter Who Played Basketball and Pranks With Virtuosity, Dies at 83 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I grew up watching the Harlem Globetrotters&#8217; specials. It was never the same without Meadowlark and the rest from the 70s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for his charismatic clowning and his halfcourt hook shots, Lemon was the Globetrotters\u2019 top showman for more than two decades. Source: Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotter Who Played Basketball and Pranks With Virtuosity, Dies at 83 &#8211; NYTimes.com I grew up watching the Harlem Globetrotters&#8217; specials. It was never the same without Meadowlark and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74d9M-lk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}