{"id":49975,"date":"2021-08-08T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49975"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:22:21","slug":"bobby-bowden-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/08\/bobby-bowden-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Bowden dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bobby Bowden, who built&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida State football into a national powerhouse<\/a>&nbsp;and directed the program with a folksy, southern charm, died&nbsp;early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden.jpg 860w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He was 91.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;July 23, Terry Bowden \u2013 son of the Hall of Fame coach \u2013 revealed his father was suffering from pancreatic cancer. This came a day after his family&nbsp;released a statement through the Democrat&nbsp;indicating he had been diagnosed with a terminal medical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowden was surrounded by his family \u2014 wife Ann and their six children \u2014 when he passed away peacefully at 5:08 a.m.&nbsp;at his Killearn Estates home, daughter Ginger Bowden told the Democrat Sunday morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He passed peacefully,&#8221; Ginger said. &#8220;His family was with him during the night.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Bowden, who built&nbsp;Florida State football into a national powerhouse&nbsp;and directed the program with a folksy, southern charm, died&nbsp;early Sunday morning. He was 91.&nbsp; On&nbsp;July 23, Terry Bowden \u2013 son&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49977,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49975\/revisions\/49977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}