{"id":12809,"date":"2012-02-13T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2012-02-13T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:18:42","slug":"ali-among-hundreds-of-attendees-of-dundee-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12809","title":{"rendered":"Ali Among Hundreds Of Attendees Of Dundee Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARWATER, FL \u2014 Hall of Fame boxing trainer <strong>Angelo Dundee<\/strong> was remembered Friday as a master motivator and a man who left a legacy of kindness that was just as impressive as what he accomplished in the ring molding a record 15 world champions, including <strong>Muhammad Ali<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali<\/strong> was among about 600 people who paid final respects at the Countryside Christian Center. The self-proclaimed \u201cGreatest\u201d wore a black suit and sunglasses and sat in front of the casket and a stage lined with flowers, pictures, paintings, and a pair of red boxing gloves sitting on a stool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali\u2019s<\/strong> wife, <strong>Lonnie<\/strong>, spoke during the service on behalf of her husband, who has Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used to call us all the time and say it doesn\u2019t cost nothing to be nice. &#8230; It was like his mantra,\u201d she said. \u201cWhenever we saw <strong>Angelo<\/strong> there was a smile of his face. He was always a happy guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARWATER, FL \u2014 Hall of Fame boxing trainer Angelo Dundee was remembered Friday as a master motivator and a man who left a legacy of kindness that was just as impressive as what he accomplished in the ring molding a record 15 world champions, including Muhammad Ali. Ali was among about 600 people who paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}