{"id":16051,"date":"2026-05-13T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/jason-collins-a-gay-trailblazer-in-the-nba-dies-of-brain-cancer-at-47-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:17:43","slug":"jason-collins-a-gay-trailblazer-in-the-nba-dies-of-brain-cancer-at-47-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/jason-collins-a-gay-trailblazer-in-the-nba-dies-of-brain-cancer-at-47-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Collins, a gay trailblazer in the NBA, dies of brain cancer at 47 &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxPZm1NT0VaVmVLNXBVVUpCU0JQSFVrQ3VHU0lULWZEMGNFdlZYbXhJc09qZk54WUdlUlVYcEtpcGJPdzA1QldUcnlMdnZ4VFpEekZJOHBuellRbU1mTnh6YnprY3pTdFZncU02dmN1dEVDRVZUa0ZuWlNpa3ZvZDdQcTZIdjIzV0tTU1l5Q3BEN3E4eXFWeFVMOXY3a0xHTGtBRnU0akp2cFFmZ2xEdXd6NEhuU1YxQ2M?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Collins, a gay trailblazer in the NBA, dies of brain cancer at 47<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxPZm1NT0VaVmVLNXBVVUpCU0JQSFVrQ3VHU0lULWZEMGNFdlZYbXhJc09qZk54WUdlUlVYcEtpcGJPdzA1QldUcnlMdnZ4VFpEekZJOHBuellRbU1mTnh6YnprY3pTdFZncU02dmN1dEVDRVZUa0ZuWlNpa3ZvZDdQcTZIdjIzV0tTU1l5Q3BEN3E4eXFWeFVMOXY3a0xHTGtBRnU0akp2cFFmZ2xEdXd6NEhuU1YxQ2M?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Collins, a gay trailblazer in the NBA, dies of brain cancer at 47&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Postsource<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}