{"id":10927,"date":"2014-06-25T12:42:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2014-06-25T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:52:31","slug":"awa-wrestling-announcer-larry-nelson-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/awa-wrestling-announcer-larry-nelson-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"AWA Wrestling Announcer Larry Nelson Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit to Wrestling Observer Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Former wrestling announcer Larry Nelson (real name: Larry Shipley) lost his battle with pancreatic cancer, passing away Monday night. Nelson announced for Verne Gagne&#8217;s AWA promotion throughout the 1980s. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote an autobiography called &#8220;Stranglehold&#8221; \u2013 which you can still pick up on Amazon \u2013 that talks about his time in the wrestling business, and the ultimate demise of the AWA after many of their big stars left for the WWF.  (Jimmy Jamz Note: It&#8217;s a pretty good read.)<\/p>\n<p>CrazyMax.org extends its condolences to the friends and family of the Shipley family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWA Wrestling Announcer of the 1980&#8217;s, Mr. Larry Nelson, Has Passed Away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[229,516],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awa","tag-larry-nelson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10929,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/10929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}