{"id":72848,"date":"2026-05-21T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/21\/howard-fendrich-award-winning-ap-national-sports-writer-and-tennis-expert-dies-at-55-ap-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:07:00","slug":"howard-fendrich-award-winning-ap-national-sports-writer-and-tennis-expert-dies-at-55-ap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/21\/howard-fendrich-award-winning-ap-national-sports-writer-and-tennis-expert-dies-at-55-ap-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Fendrich, award-winning AP national sports writer and tennis expert, dies at 55 &#8211; AP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNc0dZckNiUmdXeGlUVWhvZXhlamkya2Z0NTJidHE3ZE1tZGdrUzVfMkljMjNaWWFCZGdfX2pacnBJLVI4YnFGMXBaRldpN0VBVkxkVEd2UDNZSzRpeFR5M3FFN1p3clEwNGZiTEpScDFRUkUtaVVlWnJkSWpxUWRvU0lwc3c1RHFEYUFicnZKVG5wLVdTLUlNYUEzbU1aMkhieU9BSHp6ZXNrYWot?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Fendrich, award-winning AP national sports writer and tennis expert, dies at 55<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">AP News<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Fendrich, award-winning AP national sports writer and tennis expert, dies at 55&nbsp;&nbsp;AP News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}