{"id":184,"date":"2008-10-18T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2008\/10\/18\/ben-weider-pics-from-the-2008-mr-olympia\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:06:29","slug":"ben-weider-pics-from-the-2008-mr-olympia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2008\/10\/ben-weider-pics-from-the-2008-mr-olympia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Weider pics from the 2008 Mr. Olympia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider05.jpg\" title=\"weider05.jpg\"><\/a>It was a sad day on Saturday, October 18th, we I woke up, and found out that Ben Weider had passed away. He was an icon, and up until his passing, a person that was very aware and still came every year to the Olympia event, as he just did a few weeks ago. I got to meet Ben Weider a number of times, and one of my favorite honor was when Ben called my name on stage at the 2007 Olympia, and thanked me on stage. Here are some pictures I took from the 2008 Olympia. You will be missed Ben.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider01.jpg\" title=\"weider01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider01.jpg\" alt=\"weider01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben\u00a0 &amp; Joe Weider<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider02.jpg\" title=\"weider02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider02.jpg\" alt=\"weider02.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jim Manion, Dexter Jackson and Ben Weider on stage<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider03.jpg\" title=\"weider03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider03.jpg\" alt=\"weider03.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ryan DeLuca with Ben Weider<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider04.jpg\" title=\"weider04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider04.jpg\" alt=\"weider04.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Vince Scalisi and Dave Conlon with Ben &amp; Joe<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider05.jpg\" title=\"weider05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider05.jpg\" alt=\"weider05.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ron Avidan with Joe &amp; Ben<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider06.jpg\" title=\"weider06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider06.jpg\" alt=\"weider06.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0Bev Francis and Steve Weinburger with Ben<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider07.jpg\" title=\"weider07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider07.jpg\" alt=\"weider07.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Russ DeLuca with Joe &amp; Ben<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider08.jpg\" title=\"weider08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider08.jpg\" alt=\"weider08.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Isaac Hinds with Ben<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider09.jpg\" title=\"weider09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weider09.jpg\" alt=\"weider09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Rob Wilkins, Bob Cicherillo, Dan Solomon\u00a0and Robin Chang with Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sad day on Saturday, October 18th, we I woke up, and found out that Ben Weider had passed away. He was an icon, and up until his passing, a person that was very aware and still came every year to the Olympia event, as he just did a few weeks ago. I<\/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-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}