{"id":676996,"date":"2020-12-27T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T23:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=676996"},"modified":"2020-12-27T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T23:15:04","slug":"hall-of-famer-phil-niekro-known-for-his-knuckleball-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=676996","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Famer Phil Niekro, Known For His Knuckleball, Dies At 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ap_6803010138_wide-16449984f274920f1d84ed66a29b8cbe5dbe6c3f.jpg\" alt=\"Atlanta Braves pitcher Phil Niekro is seen in a 1968 photo. The Hall of Fame knuckleballer died at 81 years old after a battle with cancer, his former team announced Sunday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knucksie,&#8221; as he was known, pitched the most games of any Braves pitcher. He retired at 48 years old in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/npr-rss-pixel-17.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/27\/950645340\/hall-of-famer-phil-niekro-known-for-his-knuckleball-dies-at-81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hall Of Famer Phil Niekro, Known For His Knuckleball, Dies At 81<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Knucksie,&#8221; as he was known, pitched the most games of any Braves pitcher. He retired at 48 years old in 1987. (Image credit: Associated Press) &#013; &#013; &#013; Click here&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}