{"id":1244,"date":"2019-05-23T17:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:34:07","slug":"popular-sports-journalist-kofi-appiah-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/05\/23\/popular-sports-journalist-kofi-appiah-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Sports Journalist Kofi Appiah Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular sports journalist Kofi Appiah is reported to have kicked the bucket today.<\/p>\n<p>The tough-talking media personality, who gained popularity or notoriety (depending on one&#8217;s view) as a grim critic of the erstwhile Nyantakyi-led football administration,\u00a0 is reported to have been sick for some months now.<\/p>\n<p>His demise will come as a shock to the sporting fraternity, as he was famed for his stern stance on issues relating to the management of all sporting activities, especially football.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a regular pundit on Asempa FM&#8217;s morning sports show, The Ultimate Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular sports journalist Kofi Appiah is reported to have kicked the bucket today. The tough-talking media personality, who gained popularity or notoriety (depending on one&#8217;s view) as a grim critic of the erstwhile Nyantakyi-led football administration,\u00a0 is reported to have been sick for some months now. His demise will come as a shock to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[5247,6030,2286,11973,9253,3954,594],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-journalist","tag-nyantakyi","tag-one","tag-sick","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52155,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/52155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}