{"id":788824,"date":"2026-10-01T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788824\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:42:10","slug":"former-southend-united-striker-james-walker-dies-aged-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788824\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Southend United striker James Walker dies aged 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southend United said they were &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; following the death of former striker James Walker at the age of 38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walker made 54 appearances for the Essex club between 2008 and 2010, scoring eight goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A product of Charlton Athletic&#8217;s academy, Walker also represented Hartlepool United, Bristol Rovers, Leyton Orient, Notts County, Yeovil Town and Gillingham, before suffering a cardiac arrest in 2019 which resulted in significant physical and mental impairments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southend said they will hold a minute&#8217;s applause in Walker&#8217;s memory before Saturday&#8217;s National League fixture with AFC Fylde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southend United said they were &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; following the death of former striker James Walker at the age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}