{"id":14429,"date":"2015-12-28T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14429"},"modified":"2015-12-28T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:58:20","slug":"rip-meadow-george-lemon-iii-aka-meadowlark-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14429","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211; Meadow George Lemon III aka &#8220;Meadowlark&#8221; Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z122815meadowlark_lemon_rip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Meadow George Lemon III<\/strong> better known as <strong>&#8220;Meadowlark&#8221; Lemon<\/strong> of <strong>Harlem Globetrotters<\/strong> fame passed away today at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Meadowlark<\/strong> played &#8220;before\u00a0Kings, Queens, Presidents, Popes,&#8221; and millions of fans in over 100 countries of the world during his career with the <strong>Globetrotters<\/strong> which ran from 1954 &#8211; 1979 and over 16,000 games. \u00a0Dubbed the <strong>&#8220;Clown Prince of Basketball&#8221; Lemon<\/strong> became the face of the<strong> Globetrotters<\/strong> and one of the most recognized athletes in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lemon&#8217;s<\/strong> popularity led to commercials, tv and movie roles and two <strong>Harlem Globetrotter<\/strong> animated series. \u00a0In 1993, fourteen years after retiring, <strong>Lemon<\/strong> returned to the<strong> Globetrotters<\/strong> for a 50 game come-back tour. \u00a0In 2003, <strong>Lemon<\/strong> was inducted into the <strong>Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame <\/strong>which was just one of the many honor and awards<strong> Lemon <\/strong>earned throughout his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lemon<\/strong> was a born-again Christian and in 1986 became an ordained minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to\u00a0<strong>Meadow George Lemon III&#8217;s <\/strong>family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meadow George Lemon III better known as &#8220;Meadowlark&#8221; Lemon of Harlem Globetrotters fame passed away today at the age of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-sports","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14430,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions\/14430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}