{"id":123,"date":"2008-04-22T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2008\/04\/22\/rory-leidelmeyer-greatest-bodybuilder-never-to-turn-pro\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T06:22:29","slug":"rory-leidelmeyer-greatest-bodybuilder-never-to-turn-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2008\/04\/rory-leidelmeyer-greatest-bodybuilder-never-to-turn-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Leidelmeyer &#8211; Greatest Bodybuilder never to turn pro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2008 Orange County Muscle Classic contest on April 19, 2008, I had a chance to meet Rory Leidelmeyer, who Lonnie Teper and a few others call him \u2018The Greatest Bodybuilder never to turn Pro\u2019. The guy is still dynamic, and looked pretty cool, and had a lot of admirers when he competed 25+ years old. The guy is 53 years old, and still looks fit. Here is a pic of him.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><a href='https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rory.jpg' title='rory.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rory.jpg' alt='rory.jpg' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nFor more on Rory and other stories, please go to:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironmanmagazine.com\/blogs\/lonnie\/?p=186\"><strong>Lonnie Teper&#8217;s Blog April 21, 2008<\/strong><\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2008 Orange County Muscle Classic contest on April 19, 2008, I had a chance to meet Rory Leidelmeyer, who Lonnie Teper and a few others call him \u2018The Greatest Bodybuilder never to turn Pro\u2019. The guy is still dynamic, and looked pretty cool, and had a lot of admirers when he competed 25+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}