{"id":15956,"date":"2012-08-03T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2012-08-03T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T15:43:04","slug":"funeral-services-for-popular-athlete-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15956","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Services For Popular Athlete Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>O. J. MURDOCK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>2\/15\/1987 &#8212; 7\/30\/2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Funeral services for a young athlete who died Monday, will be held on Saturday. The services will take place, at 2 p.m., at The Calvary Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church, 10930 N. U. S. Highway, 301, in Thonotosassa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastor James Wolfe<\/strong> will officiate over services for <strong>Orenthal James (O. J.) Murdock.<\/strong> The 25-year-old Tampa native died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot on Monday. After being located in his car across from the Middleton High School football field, <strong>Murdock <\/strong>was transported to Tampa General Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 10:43 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murdock<\/strong> was a standout athlete who excelled in football and track and field. He graduated from Middleton High School in 2005. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n<p>He was the recipient of numerous awards and commendations. <strong>Murdock <\/strong>is survived by his parents <strong>Kelvin Murdock<\/strong> and <strong>Jamesena Murdock;<\/strong> 1 brother, 2 sisters, and numerous other family members, friends, and teammates.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Murdock <\/strong>family will receive friends from 7 p.m., to 8 p.m., Friday, August 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, at the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O. J. MURDOCK 2\/15\/1987 &#8212; 7\/30\/2012 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Funeral services for a young athlete who died Monday, will be held on Saturday. The services will take place, at 2 p.m., at The Calvary Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church, 10930 N. U. S. Highway, 301, in Thonotosassa. Pastor James Wolfe will officiate over services for Orenthal James [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","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=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}