{"id":54943,"date":"2011-08-04T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/54943\/heroes-muhammad-ali\/"},"modified":"2011-08-04T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:09:30","slug":"heroes-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/54943\/heroes-muhammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_d6pWSCmZk68\/ShNjxbLX73I\/AAAAAAAABuM\/a5SEC0j5llk\/s400\/MuhammadAli%2B1980.jpg\" title=\"Muhammad Ali\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"317\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Probably the greatest champion in boxing, Muhammad Ali was very controversial.  He converted the the Nation of Islam.  In 1967 he refused to be conscripted in the Military on religious grounds.  He was arrested and convicted and lost his title and license to box.<\/p>\n<p>His case went all the way to the Supreme Court where the lower courts decision was reversed.<\/p>\n<p>He won the heavy weight championship three times.<\/p>\n<p>Little known though is his philanthropy.  He always gave to orphanages and causes like Boy&#8217;s Town.  His giving was never based on race but on need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the greatest champion in boxing, Muhammad Ali was very controversial. He converted the the Nation of Islam. In 1967 he refused to be conscripted in the Military on religious grounds. He was arrested and convicted and lost his title and license to box. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}