{"id":412658,"date":"2023-02-15T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412658"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T16:28:40","slug":"russian-great-announces-death-of-father","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/russian-great-announces-death-of-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian great Ovechkin announces death of father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after leaving the Washington Capitals due to family reasons, Alex Ovechkin announced on Wednesday that his father, Mikhail, has died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I lost my father,\u201d Ovechkin wrote in Russian on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank everyone for the support, but please be understanding and do not disturb my family in this difficult time for us. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail was 71.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Ovechkin is one of the greatest goal scorers of all time &#8211; second only to Wayne Gretzky for all-time goal scoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after leaving the Washington Capitals due to family reasons, Alex Ovechkin announced on Wednesday that his father, Mikhail, has died. \u201cToday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17524,17091],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The NBA superstar flew to Moscow on Tuesday due to family reasons","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412658"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412658"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}