{"id":19407,"date":"2013-02-04T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19407"},"modified":"2013-02-04T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:30:58","slug":"muhammad-ali-on-deathbed-says-brother-could-die-within-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19407","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali On Deathbed, Says Brother; Could Die Within Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary boxer<strong> Muhammad Ali<\/strong>, 71, is not expected to live through the summer, and could possibly die within days, according to his brother, <strong>Rahman Ali<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s in a bad way,\u201d <strong>Rahman<\/strong> said in an interview. \u201cHe\u2019s very sick, It could be months, it could be days. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019ll last the summer. He\u2019s in God\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rahman <\/strong>says that the former heavyweight champion no longer recognizes him and is unable to speak.<strong> Ali<\/strong> was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease in 1984 but remained active for many years and made a moving appearance at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games where he lit the flame.<\/p>\n<p>Though <strong>Ali\u2019s<\/strong> wife has not commented on the claims, <strong>Rahman<\/strong> says that his brother has requested a quote from <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong> be inscribed on his headstone: \u201cI tried to love somebody, I did try to feed the hungry. I did try, in my life, to clothe those who were naked. I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.\u2019 The Greatest.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, 71, is not expected to live through the summer, and could possibly die within days, according to his brother, Rahman Ali. \u201cHe\u2019s in a bad way,\u201d Rahman said in an interview. \u201cHe\u2019s very sick, It could be months, it could be days. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019ll last the summer. He\u2019s [&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-19407","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\/19407","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=19407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}