{"id":154719,"date":"2025-06-03T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154719\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:56:08","slug":"jose-santa-cruz-father-and-trainer-of-leo-santa-cruz-dies-after-struggle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154719\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Santa Cruz, father and trainer of Leo Santa Cruz, dies after struggle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It was when watching the activity at a boxing gym in Mexico as a young adult that Jose Santa Cruz became so consumed by the sport that he vowed that he would make one of his four sons a world champion. While working in the Southland cooking and painting, his afternoon routine involved him accompanying his young boys to a gym for training. The older boys, Antonio, Jose Armando and Robert, didn\u2019t become champions, but his youngest did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was when watching the activity at a boxing gym in Mexico as a young adult that Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,65778,59324,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-jose-santa-cruz","10":"tag-leo-santa-cruz","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114619310646359419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}