{"id":691,"date":"2015-05-25T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2015-05-25T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:23:18","slug":"meanwhile-in-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in 1965&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ali.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-692\" alt=\"ali\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ali.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago today this happened.<\/p>\n<p>In front of just 2,400 spectators in tiny Lewistown, Maine, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in one of the most talked-about sports moments of all time. Ali, who had publically converted to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay since his previous bout (also a defeat of Liston), retained the WBC World Heavyweight title. The fight lasted about two minutes\u2026 the picture forever.<\/p>\n<p>God damn what a great picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago today this happened. In front of just 2,400 spectators in tiny Lewistown, Maine, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in one of the most talked-about sports moments of all time. Ali, who had publically converted to Islam &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}