{"id":17742,"date":"2013-02-02T00:49:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/iconic-rugby-figure-dies\/"},"modified":"2013-02-02T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:49:01","slug":"iconic-rugby-figure-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/iconic-rugby-figure-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic rugby figure dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African Rugby Union president and politician Louis Luyt has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Luyt was reportedly admitted to Durban Hospital where he died this morning. He was 80 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU) issued a statement saying that it was \u201cwith great sadness\u201d that the union had learnt of the passing of the former Lions boss, \u201cone of South Africa\u2019s most iconic rugby figures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to convey my deepest sympathies to Doc Luyt\u2019s dear wife and children on behalf of myself and the Golden Lions Rugby Union,\u201d GLRU president Kevin de Klerk said.<\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/louis-luyt-dies-at-80-1.1462661#.UQuupqWKKuI\" target=\"_blank\">IOL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African Rugby Union president and politician Louis Luyt has passed away. Luyt was reportedly admitted to Durban Hospital where he died this morning. He was 80 years old. Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU) issued a statement saying that it was \u201cwith great sadness\u201d that the union had learnt of the passing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}