{"id":47653,"date":"2026-08-27T02:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/sir-billy-boston-trailblazing-rugby-league-player-dies-aged-92\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T02:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:55:34","slug":"sir-billy-boston-trailblazing-rugby-league-player-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/sir-billy-boston-trailblazing-rugby-league-player-dies-aged-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Billy Boston: Trailblazing rugby league player dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Billy Boston: Trailblazing rugby league player dies aged 92 Trailblazing rugby league player Sir Billy Boston has died at the age of 92; He was the first ever rugby league player to receive a knighthood, ending a 130-year wait for such an honour; He was also the first Black player to represent Great Britain<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-league\/news\/12196\/13573943\/sir-billy-boston-trailblazing-rugby-league-player-dies-aged-92\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Billy Boston: Trailblazing rugby league player dies aged 92 Trailblazing rugby league player Sir Billy Boston has died at the age of 92; He was the first ever rugby league player to receive a knighthood, ending a 130-year wait for such an honour; He was also the first Black player to represent Great BritainRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}