{"id":7238,"date":"2016-12-19T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7238"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:15:00","slug":"bassey-hogan-kid","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/bassey-hogan-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"BASSEY, Hogan &#8220;Kid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>boxer, born June 3, 1932, Creek Town. Calabar, Cross River State; married Maria Williams 1955 (divorced), Mary Magdalene 1977, has ten children; Education: Creek Town School, Calabar, 1941-43Ahmadiyya (now Breadfruit) Primary School, Olowogbowo, Lagos. 1948-50; Chief National Boxing Coach. 1960-1980; National Flyweight Champion, 1949, National Bantam Weight Boxing Champion, 1950, Commonwealth Featherweight Champion, 1955 and World Featherweight Champion, 1957-60; Chairman, Welfare Committee, Christ Army Church of God, Ajcgunle. Lagos; Foreign Honours: member of the Order of British Empire (MB1\u00a3). 1958. honoured with Lion of Africa award, Senegal, 1973; Publication: Hogan On Boxing (Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, 1963): Hobbies: table tennis, swimming, foot ball, athletics; Official Address: 41 Kofo Abayomi Avenue, Apapa, PO Box 145, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 875646.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[547],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7238","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}