{"id":13970,"date":"2021-08-08T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:21:50","slug":"bobby-bowden-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/08\/08\/bobby-bowden-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Bowden dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden.jpg 860w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bobby-Bowden-768x512.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was 91.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#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":1,"featured_media":13971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[961],"class_list":["post-13970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-bobby-bowden-dies-at-91"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}