{"id":16151,"date":"2019-10-22T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16151"},"modified":"2019-11-05T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:01:03","slug":"billy-crystals-talk-at-the-funeral-of-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/billy-crystals-talk-at-the-funeral-of-muhammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Crystal&#8217;s Talk at the Funeral of Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 1965, Muhammad Ali tortured Floyd Patterson for refusing to call him Muhammad Ali instead of Cassius Clay. Approximately 1979, I arranged for Muhammad Ali to appear on KABC Sports Talk with host Bud Furillo to help me promote the California Golden Glove Championship at the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium. When I arrived in a limousine at his Hancock Park home, he was standing in the door waiting for me. I have numerous personal stories about Ali but I defer to Billy Crystal talk at his funeral. RIP Muhammad Ali.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7XB3sD9QJCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 1965, Muhammad Ali tortured Floyd Patterson for refusing to call him Muhammad Ali instead of Cassius Clay. Approximately 1979, I arranged for Muhammad Ali to appear on KABC Sports Talk with host Bud Furillo to help me promote the California Golden Glove Championship at the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium. When I arrived&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[287,286],"class_list":["post-16151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-billy-crystal","tag-muhammad-ali","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16153,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151\/revisions\/16153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}