{"id":266653,"date":"2022-12-29T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=266653"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:31:44","slug":"soccer-great-pele-has-died-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=266653","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Great Pele Has Died At 82"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 Pel\u00e9, Brazil\u2019s mighty king of soccer, has died. He was 82. Since 2021, he had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer discovered during a routine medical exam. His agent Joe Fraga confirmed his death. Pel\u00e9 was one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century. He won a record three World Cups with Brazil and was the standard-bearer of \u201cthe beautiful game\u201d with the national team and his club Santos. His exuberance and mesmerizing moves transfixed generations of fans around the globe. His flair personified his country\u2019s samba-style elegance. Late in his career, he helped popularize soccer in North America by joining the New York Cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 Pel\u00e9, Brazil\u2019s mighty king of soccer, has died. He was 82. Since 2021, he had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer discovered during a routine medical exam. His agent Joe Fraga confirmed his death. Pel\u00e9 was one of the most commanding sports figures of the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-worldnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266659,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266653\/revisions\/266659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}