{"id":2561,"date":"2025-03-21T23:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2025-03-21T23:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:32:19","slug":"r-i-p-george-foreman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. George Foreman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw him on David Letterman many, many years ago. He was funny and self depreciating. But as he talked all I could think about was, &#8220;How many times did Ali get hit in the face with that fist?&#8221; Jeeze. His fist was the size of my head! He became a heavyweight champion a second time at 46, the oldest ever, then retired at 48. Through a fluke endorsement deal, he became rich and famous again for selling indoor grills. He named all his kids George (for the girls, some female variation). What a life. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/obituaries\/george-foreman-heavyweight-boxing-champion-dies-76-rcna197589\">George Foreman, heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 76<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw him on David Letterman many, many years ago. He was funny and self depreciating. But as he talked all I could think about was, &#8220;How many times did Ali get hit in the face with that fist?&#8221; Jeeze. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}