{"id":90983,"date":"2015-12-28T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90983"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T14:42:33","slug":"meadownlark-lemon-passes-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90983","title":{"rendered":"Meadownlark Lemon, passes at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lemommedowlark2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90986\" alt=\"lemommedowlark2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lemommedowlark2.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lemommedowlark2.jpg 180w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lemommedowlark2-106x175.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) &#8211; Former Harlem Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon has died. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>Globetrotters spokesman Brett Meister said Lemon&#8217;s wife and daughter confirmed to the team that he died Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Meister did not know the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8220;clown prince&#8221; of the barnstorming basketball team, Lemon used a blend of hook shots and humor to bring joy to millions of fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon was arguably the most famous player for the Globetrotters, performing for the all-black team during its heyday from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The showman known as much for his confetti-in-the-water-bucket routine as his hook shot and no-look passes was inducted into both the basketball and clown hall of fames.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon later formed Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Meadowlark Lemon Ministries, traveling the country to provide a message of faith to children in basketball camps and in youth prisons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) &#8211; Former Harlem Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon has died. He was 83. Globetrotters spokesman Brett Meister said Lemon&#8217;s wife and daughter confirmed to the team that he died Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Meister did not know the cause of death. Known as the &#8220;clown prince&#8221; of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90983"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90988,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90983\/revisions\/90988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}