{"id":114201,"date":"2016-02-25T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T09:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114201\/on-this-day-in-history\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T09:26:41","slug":"on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/02\/25\/on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 25, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) shocked the world by predicting that he would beat\u00a0Sonny Liston. He boasted that he would \u201cfloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee\u201d and knock out Liston in the eighth round, which he did. Liston, who had twice demolished former champ Floyd Patterson in one round, was an 8-to-1 favourite. After only seven rounds, a new heavyweight champion was proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below:<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iyhqZNcF9pM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='55a69fdfc583bd6922093ad028e0ba1e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, dethroned world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":114202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10001,1120,10002,10003,3305,10004,10005,1724],"class_list":["post-114201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-10001","tag-boxing","tag-cassius-clay","tag-floyd-patterson","tag-history","tag-muhammad-ali","tag-sonny-liston","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["1964","Boxing","cassius clay","Floyd Patterson","history","muhammad ali","sonny liston","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}