{"id":242,"date":"2026-09-04T00:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:24:47","slug":"former-wake-forest-and-nfl-defensive-back-alphonso-smith-dies-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/former-wake-forest-and-nfl-defensive-back-alphonso-smith-dies-at-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wake Forest and NFL Defensive Back Alphonso Smith Dies at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Forest University announced that Alphonso Smith, a standout two-time All-America defensive back who spent four seasons in the National Football League, has passed away at the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>The university did not disclose the specific cause of death in its statement regarding Smith&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphonso Smith, a two-time All-America defensive back who played four NFL seasons, has died at age 40. No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[657,55,610,627,656],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-college-football","tag-deaths","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-wake-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}