{"id":16815,"date":"2014-01-03T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2014-01-03T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T06:40:06","slug":"veteran-referee-namdar-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/03\/veteran-referee-namdar-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran referee Namdar dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iranian referee Jafar Namdar passed away on Wednesday at the age of 80.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Namdar officiated as a referee at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>He was Chief of the Iranian Referees Committee from 1970 until 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s minister of sports and youth affairs Mahmoud Goudarzi sent a letter of condolence to Iranian football family upon learning of the death of Namdar.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran Times staff also offers its heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iranian referee Jafar Namdar passed away on Wednesday at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":10870,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}