{"id":17526,"date":"2026-10-09T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/mike-ditka-hall-of-fame-tight-end-and-legendary-chicago-bears-coach-dies-at-86\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:54:29","slug":"mike-ditka-hall-of-fame-tight-end-and-legendary-chicago-bears-coach-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/mike-ditka-hall-of-fame-tight-end-and-legendary-chicago-bears-coach-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Ditka, Hall of Fame tight end and legendary Chicago Bears coach, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2025\/09\/29165456\/GettyImages-96168481-scaled-e1759179327830.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;fit=crop\"\/>Ditka, who was an NFL champion as a player and coach, became the most visible \u2014 some would say overexposed \u2014 coach in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ditka, who was an NFL champion as a player and coach, became the most visible \u2014 some would say overexposed \u2014 coach in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17549,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions\/17549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinnews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}