{"id":66353,"date":"2024-09-30T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=66353"},"modified":"2024-09-30T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T19:57:05","slug":"congolese-basketball-legend-dikembe-mutombo-dies-aged-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/congolese-basketball-legend-dikembe-mutombo-dies-aged-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Congolese basketball legend Dikembe Mutombo dies aged 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66354\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dikembe-Mutombo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dikembe-Mutombo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dikembe-Mutombo-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dikembe-Mutombo.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">D<\/span>efensive player Dikembe Mutombo was an eight-time NBA All-Star who won accolades for his exceptional shot-blocking. He also was also known for his humanitarian work in Central Africa, .<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/congolese-basketball-legend-dikembe-mutombo-dies-aged-58\/ar-AA1rtRYK?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=cae42fff04a3423087d7f5132af79814&amp;ei=58\"> Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Defensive player Dikembe Mutombo was an eight-time NBA All-Star who won accolades for his exceptional shot-blocking. He also was also known for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dikembe-Mutombo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66355,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66353\/revisions\/66355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}