{"id":13519,"date":"2017-02-11T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13519"},"modified":"2017-02-11T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T21:43:03","slug":"rip-mike-illitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13519","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mike Ilitch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I really don&#8217;t like doing these&#8230;when someone dies that has been part of the fabric of Michigan life for as long as I can remember&#8230;and it happened again yesterday when Mike Ilitch died&#8230;You may not know who Mike was but I&#8217;m sure you have eaten one of his pizzas since the Little Caesars pizza chain is everywhere here in Michigan&#8230;and that would be enough for many people&#8230;but Mike was much more to the people of Michigan and especially the people of Detroit&#8230;he was the owner of both the Red Wings and Tigers and took both franchises from the depths when he bought them to championship teams..winning 4 Stanley Cups with the Wings and getting the Tigers to two world series&#8230;but, that is not what he should be remembered for&#8230;he should be remembered for the way he did it&#8230;always with a smile and a thought for his hometown, always giving back with his tireless work for the revitalization of Detroit&#8230;and his support of youth sports that gave countless kids a place to be and to learn what it means to be a part of something&#8230;.so, RIP Mike&#8230;good job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I really don&#8217;t like doing these&#8230;when someone dies that has been part of the fabric of Michigan life for as long as I can remember&#8230;and it happened again yesterday when Mike Ilitch died&#8230;You may not know who Mike was but I&#8217;m sure you have eaten one of his pizzas since the Little Caesars pizza chain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=13519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Mike Ilitch&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1566],"class_list":["post-13519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-mike-ilitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13525,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions\/13525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}