{"id":77288,"date":"2019-01-25T02:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/25\/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T02:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:34:19","slug":"hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=77288","title":{"rendered":"Hugh McIlvanney, veteran sports reporter, dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes flow for former Observer and Sunday Times writer who covered some of sport\u2019s greatest eventsHugh McIlvanney, one of the most respected voices in British sports journalism, has died aged 84.McIlvanney, who was the Observer\u2019s chief sports correspondent for 30 years until 1993, covered some of the most significant sporting events of the 20th century, including the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974 and England\u2019s World Cup win in 1966. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/jan\/25\/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh McIlvanney, veteran sports reporter, dies aged 84<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes flow for former Observer and Sunday Times writer who covered some of sport\u2019s greatest eventsHugh McIlvanney, one of the most respected voices in British sports journalism, has died aged 84.McIlvanney, who was the Observer\u2019s chief sports correspondent for 30 years until 1993, covered some of the most significant sporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}