{"id":12307,"date":"2016-06-18T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T21:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2016-06-18T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T21:21:32","slug":"bye-bye-pavel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12307","title":{"rendered":"Bye, bye Pavel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s the day we all saw coming but we hoped would never get here&#8230;Pavel Datsyuk announced today that he is retiring from the NHL to go home to Russia. There is something about Russia that seem to pull it&#8217;s people back to their homeland, and Pavel is no different&#8230;he just wanted to go home to be with his teenage daughter and the rest of his family&#8230;and who can fault that? I will always remember his magic on the ice, and his sense of humor that came through even his broken english&#8230;.he could do things on the ice that earned him the nickname &#8220;the Magic Man&#8221; and, as he has gotten older, he wanted to take what&#8217;s left of the magic and play in front of Russian fans to finish out his career&#8230;he is 37, after all, and age catches up with even magic&#8230;we will miss him playing for the Red Wings, but the highlight reels are still there to help us remember what he meant to us&#8230;bye, bye, Pavel&#8230;and good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it&#8217;s the day we all saw coming but we hoped would never get here&#8230;Pavel Datsyuk announced today that he is retiring from the NHL to go home to Russia. There is something about Russia that seem to pull it&#8217;s people back to their homeland, and Pavel is no different&#8230;he just wanted to go home to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bye, bye Pavel&#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":[38,1355],"class_list":["post-12307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-pavel-datsyuk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12308,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}