{"id":8577,"date":"2018-06-04T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2018-06-04T18:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T02:31:51","slug":"san-francisco-49er-legend-dwight-clark-passes-away-3-year-battle-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2018\/06\/04\/san-francisco-49er-legend-dwight-clark-passes-away-3-year-battle-als\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49er Legend Dwight Clark passes away after 3 year battle with ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was announced today the San Francisco 49er legend Dwight Clark passed away after a three year battle with ALS. He was 61 years old.<br \/>\nDwight Clark is best known for the most famous catch in 49er history as he was on the receiving end of\u00a0 the Joe Montana pass that would defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the 1982NFC Championship game. That victory would lead to the first of the San Francisco 49ers five Super Bowl championships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">October 22, 2017 was Dwight Clark day at Levi&#8217;s stadium with all past San Francisco 49ers players wearing #87 in honor of Clark.<br \/>\nDwight Clark speaks to fans at Levi&#8217;s stadium with former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. at his side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8579\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-1028.jpg\" alt=\"Dwight Clark speaks to the San Francisco 49ers fans on Dwight Clark day October 22, 2017 at Levi's stadium in Santa Clara, CA.\" width=\"939\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-1028.jpg 939w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-1028-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-1028-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-1028-411x270.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/><br \/>\nSan Francisco 49ers legend quarterback Joe Montana speaks on behalf of all the former 49ers players who were on hand on Dwight Clark day. Montana along with all the other former players were wearing #87, Dwight Clark&#8217;s number.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8583\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-0970.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco 49er legend Joe Montana wears #87 honoring Dwight Clark at Levi's Stadium on October 22, 2017\" width=\"939\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-0970.jpg 939w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-0970-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-0970-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/49ers-vs-Cowboys-0970-391x270.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today the San Francisco 49er legend Dwight Clark passed away after a three year battle with ALS. He was 61 years old. Dwight Clark is best known for the most famous catch in 49er history as he was on the receiving end of\u00a0 the Joe Montana pass that would defeat the Dallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[2751,2627,2600,2528,66,468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}