{"id":746083,"date":"2013-04-11T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=224653"},"modified":"2013-04-11T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:53:19","slug":"dave-ohara-dies-sports-reporter-was-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746083","title":{"rendered":"Dave O\u2019Hara Dies; Sports Reporter Was 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Boston sports writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famousdead.com\/dave-ohara\/\">Dave O&#8217;Hara<\/a> has died at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/business\/media_marketing\/2013\/04\/former_ap_boston_sports_editor_ohara_dies\">report<\/a> from the Associated Press, O&#8217;Hara died of cancer at his home in Winter Haven, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hara spent 50 years writing for the Associated Press.  Much of that career was spent in Boston, where he covered sports, including the Celtics, the Red Sox (including the infamous &#8216;Buckner&#8217;s folly&#8217; incident during the 1986 World Series), Ted Williams, and Larry Bird.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AP, O&#8217;Hara began his career in 1942 as a copy boy in the AP&#8217;s Boston bureau.  He was 15 at the time.  Aside from his time in the Korean War and a short stint covering Milwaukee sports in the early 60s, O&#8217;Hara covered Boston sports and became the AP&#8217;s New England sports editor in 1965.  O&#8217;Hara retired in 1992<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=CRHHLklLAdk:xqhnZLiKo1Y:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/CRHHLklLAdk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Boston sports writer Dave O&#8217;Hara has died at the age of 86. According to a report from the Associated Press, O&#8217;Hara died of cancer at his home in Winter Haven, Florida. O&#8217;Hara spent 50 years writing for the Associated Press. Much of that career was spent in Boston, where he covered sports, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-385B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}