{"id":16433,"date":"2026-07-11T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16433"},"modified":"2026-07-11T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:15:16","slug":"ken-bates-former-chelsea-fc-chairman-dies-aged-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16433","title":{"rendered":"Ken Bates: Former Chelsea FC chairman dies, aged 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHis impact on Chelsea will be remembered for generations, and his place in the club&#8217;s history is assured.The thoughts of the CST board &#038; all our members around the globe are with Ken&#8217;s family, friends and all those who knew him. Thank You, Ken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHis impact on Chelsea will be remembered for generations, and his place in the club&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}