{"id":19059,"date":"2019-08-07T19:18:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=19059"},"modified":"2019-08-07T19:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:18:03","slug":"tribute-to-salvador-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/tribute-to-salvador-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Salvador S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tribute to Salvador S\u00e1nchez<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Like every year, the hometown of Santiago Tianguistenco will celebrate the life and career of\u00a0boxing idol Salvador S\u00e1nchez\u00a0via \u00a0a tribute on August 12, 37 years , after his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Following tradition, the day will begin with a mass in the famous Church of Santa Mar\u00eda del Buen Suceso , located in the town square where Sanchez was baptized and where he was also given the last goodbye on August 15, 1982 \u00a0by\u00a0more than \u00a050,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>After the Mass, a brief ceremony will be held in the cemetery in front of Salvador&#8217;s tomb where family and friends gather to sing songs and share some words and anecdotes of one of the greatest Mexican idols.<\/p>\n<p>To conclude the celebration, an amateur boxing card is held and also \u00a0traditional food is served by the S\u00e1nchez family which is free.<\/p>\n<p>For his brother Sulio, \u00a0it is very important to continue with this tradition because it is not only to remember an all time great fighter, who became a legend, but also to bring the people of Tianguistenco to the noble sport, at which Salvador excelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribute to Salvador S\u00e1nchez Like every year, the hometown of Santiago Tianguistenco will celebrate the life and career of\u00a0boxing idol Salvador S\u00e1nchez\u00a0via \u00a0a tribute on August<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}