{"id":32969,"date":"2026-06-10T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/a-spacecraft-landed-perfectly-on-earth-but-the-entire-crew-was-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:32:09","slug":"a-spacecraft-landed-perfectly-on-earth-but-the-entire-crew-was-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/a-spacecraft-landed-perfectly-on-earth-but-the-entire-crew-was-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spacecraft Landed Perfectly on Earth\u2014but the Entire Crew Was Dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<div class=\"css-hl6xtf e1wzc3k51\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/clock-regular.4ddebeb.svg\" alt=\"Estimated read time\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span class=\"css-deygkq e1wzc3k50\">5 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1jx1kps etlajd2\">\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section\" data-fp-collapsible-section=\"true\" class=\"css-p1fz9n e1q3dcg6\">\n<h3 data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header\" data-fp-collapsible-section-header=\"true\" class=\"css-icluyw e1q3dcg5\"><button aria-label=\"Hide Key Points section\" aria-expanded=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-header-button\" class=\"css-rgwsqu e1q3dcg4\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-4ved3l etlajd0\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/sparkle-regular.2aa06fe.svg\" alt=\"Sparkle Regular\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Key Points<\/div>\n<div data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-wrapper\" data-collapsible-open=\"true\" class=\"css-1kwqn25 e1q3dcg0\"><span data-testid=\"iconRight\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-icon-right\" class=\"css-1ep4808 e1q3dcg1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/h3>\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" data-theme-key=\"collapsible-section-text\" data-fp-collapsible-section-body=\"true\" class=\"css-1bo2quf e1q3dcg3\">\n<div class=\"css-ex91la etlajd1\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type: disc\">Soviet cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev became the first and only men to die in space when a faulty ventilation valve depressurized their Soyuz 11 capsule during reentry in 1971.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type: disc\">The tragic loss of the Soyuz 11 crew sparked mutual international grief that transformed the Space Race from Cold War competition into cooperation, ultimately leading to the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type: disc\">A pre-mission medical exam detected a spot on cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov\u2019s lung\u2014later found to be a pesticide allergy\u2014saving the original crew&#8217;s lives by replacing them with the doomed Soyuz 11 backup crew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><keypoints-embed isaigenerated=\"false\" isapproved=\"false\" data-embed=\"1\" data-node-id=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"body-tip css-1bs6c1d emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"1.0\">This story is a collaboration with <\/em><em data-node-id=\"1.1\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.1.0\">Biography.com<\/strong><\/em><em data-node-id=\"1.2\">.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Some of Vladislav Volkov\u2019s final words were, \u201c\u0417\u0430\u0432\u0442\u0440\u0430 \u0432\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044f, \u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u044c\u0442\u0435 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u044c\u044f\u043a,\u201d which translates to, \u201cWe\u2019ll meet tomorrow, get the cognac ready.\u201d But if the ground crew was ready to hail the conquering cosmonaut heroes when Soyuz 11 touched down, their revelry quickly fell to a hush.<\/p>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Ask your average American when the Space Race ended, and they\u2019ll likely tell you it came to a close in July 1969, when <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/scientists\/neil-armstrong\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/scientists\/neil-armstrong\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Neil Armstrong\" data-node-id=\"4.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\">Neil Armstrong<\/a> famously took his \u201cone small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">But tell that to a Russian, and they\u2019ll look at you like you just said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/culture\/movies\/g18736977\/star-wars-ranked\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/culture\/movies\/g18736977\/star-wars-ranked\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Star Wars\" data-node-id=\"6.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\"><em data-node-id=\"6.1.0\">Star Wars<\/em><\/a> ended in May 1980 when Darth Vader told Luke he was his father. It\u2019s a landmark moment, for sure, but not where the story ends.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">The real end of the Space Race was July 1975\u2019s Apollo-Soyuz Test Project\u2014the first international space mission, a moment where two ships docked and two countries\u2019 cosmic explorers came together and shook hands. The Space Race ended, not with an act of dominance, but one of diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">That thawing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a71154591\/cold-war-panic-new-kind-of-water\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a71154591\/cold-war-panic-new-kind-of-water\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Cold War tensions\" data-node-id=\"8.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Cold War tensions<\/a> came about in part because of a shocking tragedy suffered by the Soviet space program, one that occurred after the average American citizen of the early 1970s had already turned their attention away from the stars and back to their troubles at home. But the expression of mutual grief that bonded the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts may well have laid the groundwork for seeing space as an opportunity for cooperation over conquest.<\/p>\n<hr data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">The Americans may have put the first man on the moon, but the USSR saw this as a single accomplishment for the US, not a total victory. The Soviets had already achieved their fair share of space \u201cfirsts,\u201d after all, and in the wake of Armstrong\u2019s moon walk, they simply set about trying to achieve even more firsts.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">On April 19, 1971, while America was swept up in domestic issues like the court-martial of William Calley and the sentencing of <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/crime\/charles-manson\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/crime\/charles-manson\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Charles Manson\" data-node-id=\"11.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\">Charles Manson<\/a>, the Soviet Union launched their most ambitious orbital endeavor yet: Salyut 1, the world\u2019s first space station. Salyut was intended to play host to a number of spaceflight firsts. Because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/a19116\/history-of-space-stations\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/a19116\/history-of-space-stations\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"space station\" data-node-id=\"11.3\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">space station<\/a> was intended to float for six months above Earth, cosmonauts would be able to conduct experiments and perform many inaugural extra-atmospheric acts while setting a new record for most time spent in space.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">The crew of Soyuz 10 were originally meant to be those groundbreaking cosmonauts, but when they reached Salyut, a mechanical issue prevented them from boarding the space station. So, the chance to achieve all the historic \u201cfirsts\u201d that Salyut offered now fell to the crew of Soyuz 11. That crew would achieve many of those intended firsts, and one more that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/weapons\/a18187\/here-is-the-soviet-unions-secret-space-cannon\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/weapons\/a18187\/here-is-the-soviet-unions-secret-space-cannon\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"USSR\" data-node-id=\"13.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">USSR<\/a> hadn\u2019t planned for: they would be the first, and to date only, men to die in space.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">But the men who eventually docked at Salyut from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/rockets\/a24042\/soyuz-spacecraft-50-anniversary\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/rockets\/a24042\/soyuz-spacecraft-50-anniversary\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Soyuz\" data-node-id=\"14.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Soyuz<\/a> were not even the same cosmonauts originally intended to fly the Soyuz 11 mission. Valeri Kubasov, a veteran of the Soyuz 6 mission in 1969, was initially slated to undertake the Soyuz 11 mission alongside Alexei Leonov and Pyotr Kolodin. But a pre-mission medical exam spotted a swelling in Kubasov\u2019s lung that doctors suspected might be tuberculosis. As a result, the entire crew was removed from the mission in favor of their backups: Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev.<\/p>\n<div data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"57e4950:15\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"embed css-2p8qmy e1yri45i0\">\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-13f5bxj e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-1k29q50 e1fodxfw3\"><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"1971 Soviet stamp honoring three cosmonauts with spacecraft.\" title=\"1971 Soviet stamp honoring three cosmonauts with spacecraft.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1258\" height=\"895\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 980w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1120w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1400w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1800w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/8e6ea4a6-0bfb-4124-a48e-8e17675db56f.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:*\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-8glv6r e1fodxfw2\"><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-qwlzud e1g9hcy40\"><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-s3tu6h e1geg53v2\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><p>Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev depicted on a Soviet postage stamp. Above, the text reads \u201cThe heroes\u2019 feat will live on for ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Leonov would later recount in his memoir his crew\u2019s displeasure at the decision. He and Kolodin thought they should still be able to fly even if Kubasov was sick, and when it turned out Kubasov\u2019s ailment was merely an allergic reaction to \u201cchemical insecticide used to spray trees,\u201d it felt all the more absurd that they had to stand down.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"17\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">That pesticide, and the spot on Kubasov\u2019s lung, is what saved their lives.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">The new crew of Soyuz 11 successfully made it to Salyut and spent 23 days conducting experiments there. They grew plants, battled fire and exhaustion, tested the limits of human endurance through treadmill exercise, and Patsayev even made history as the first man to have a birthday in space (he turned 38 years old).<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"19\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">The days aboard Salyut were an undeniable success. It seemed that Volkov had been right to request cognac to celebrate upon their reentry. Unfortunately, when the crew was leaving Salyut, tragedy struck.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"20\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Between the orbital module and the descent capsule where the cosmonauts sat was a pressure equalization valve\u2014a small mechanism designed to let outside air into the capsule once it had landed safely back on Earth. The valve was located beneath the cosmonauts\u2019 couches, out of sight and seemingly inconsequential. But when the explosive bolts separating the descent capsule from the service module fired simultaneously instead of sequentially, the resulting jolt loosened a seal inside the valve, causing it to open while the capsule was still in the void of space.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"21\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Air rushed out of the cabin. It wasn&#8217;t the practice of the USSR at the time to outfit their space crews with pressurized suits for reentry, so Dobrovolsky, Volkov, and Patsayev were defenseless. The valve was impossible to locate and block before the air was lost. Flight recorder data showed that the crew was dead within 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"22\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">For a brief time, especially on the American side, what happened aboard Soyuz 11 was a mystery. \u201cSeveral factors had led to the confusion that surrounded this topic,\u201d NASA suggested in their 1978 book <em data-node-id=\"22.1\">Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. <\/em>The theories offered in explanation ranged from mistranslations of early Soviet analysis to inaccurate private remarks passed along to the Western press.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"24\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">But suspicions about the exact cause of the cosmonauts\u2019 deaths gave way to a mutual grief expressed by two nations otherwise at odds. <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/political-figures\/richard-nixon\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/political-figures\/richard-nixon\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"President Richard Nixon\" data-node-id=\"24.1\" class=\"body-link css-vxmlos emevuu60\">President Richard Nixon<\/a> sent NASA\u2019s Chief Astronaut Tom Stafford as his representative to the funeral of the Soyuz crew. On his arrival, the Soviets asked Stafford to be one of the pallbearers. \u201cThe whole world followed the exploits of these courageous explorers of the unknown,\u201d President Nixon would say in an official statement, \u201cand shares the anguish of their tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"25\" class=\"css-1ood0zq emevuu60\">Nixon\u2019s words weren\u2019t empty, either. The tragedy of Soyuz 11, and the outpouring of international grief it elicited, sparked a move away from competition in favor of cooperation, culminating in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. When American and Soviet crews met in the weightlessness of space in July 1975, they included U.S. commander Tom Stafford\u2014who had served as a pallbearer at the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts\u2019 funeral four years earlier\u2014and Soviet flight engineer Valeri Kubasov, who was removed from the Soyuz 11 crew just days before launch in June 1971.<\/p>\n<div data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"57e4950:26\" data-node-id=\"26\" class=\"embed css-c3gbvw e1yri45i0\">\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-13f5bxj e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-1k29q50 e1fodxfw3\"><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"Apollo-Soyuz Test Project\" title=\"Apollo-Soyuz Test Project\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"5276\" height=\"4210\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 980w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1120w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1400w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1800w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/568112cc-0098-457f-9b29-d42cd16c13bc.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:*\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-8glv6r e1fodxfw2\"><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-qwlzud e1g9hcy40\"><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-s3tu6h e1geg53v2\">Space Frontiers<\/span><span class=\"css-1ljf4qn e1geg53v0\">\/\/<\/span><span class=\"css-s3tu6h e1geg53v1\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><p>Valeri Kubasov (L) and Thomas Stafford (R) during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-journey-blur=\"partial\" data-ad-exclude=\"true\" data-fp-ignore=\"true\" class=\"css-19m4yzp e1jy25xv0\">\n<div class=\"css-sfzxfp ev8dhu59\"><span class=\"css-3mrz81 ev8dhu51\"><img src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/rover\/profile_photos\/a0a518c7-4b7c-4fec-af85-d82b1326dcac_1746820427.file?fill=1:1&amp;resize=120:*\" alt=\"Headshot of Michael Natale\" title=\"Headshot of Michael Natale\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-o0wq4v ev8dhu53\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dsojn8 ev8dhu55\">\n<div class=\"css-18qd15 ev8dhu54\">\n<p>Michale Natale is a News Editor for the Hearst Enthusiast Group. As a writer and researcher, he has produced written and audio-visual content for more than fifteen years, spanning historical periods from the dawn of early man to the Golden Age of Hollywood. His stories for the Enthusiast Group have involved coordinating with organizations like the National Parks Service and the Secret Service, and travelling to notable historical sites and archaeological digs, from excavations of America\u2019 earliest colonies to the former homes of Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 min read Key Points Soviet cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev became the first and only men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/95f9d233-4ef1-4dd7-b197-d9a0b002a5ad.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.596181299072xh;center,top&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}