{"id":5079,"date":"2012-05-31T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:59:49","slug":"thanks-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5079","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Nick&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just finished watching the press conference where Nick Lidstrom announced his retirement and it is a sad day for those of us who love the Wings but even more than that, it is a sad day when the classiest person in hockey, or any sport really, leaves the game. Nick has been the one constant since I have avidly followed the Wings and this will diminish the fervor somewhat I&#8217;m afraid&#8230;.one thing that is gone for me is the confidence that when an opposing player breaks away and comes down the ice, that Nick will handle it&#8230;.there were many times, watching with my friends, that I said out loud when that happened, &#8220;we&#8217;ll be okay, Nick&#8217;s got it..&#8221; and now I can&#8217;t say it anymore and that is going to be hard&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll leave it at this&#8230;.thanks Nick&#8230;.it is cool when someone adds more to the world than they take&#8230;we&#8217;ll all miss you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just finished watching the press conference where Nick Lidstrom announced his retirement and it is a sad day for those of us who love the Wings but even more than that, it is a sad day when the classiest person in hockey, or any sport really, leaves the game. Nick has been the one constant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks Nick&#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":[38,704],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-nicklas-lidstrom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","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=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}