{"id":46,"date":"2008-09-11T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-09-11T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:35:43","slug":"hockey-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/hockey-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey season is right around the corner &#8211; training camp is set to get under way not too long from now and the puck officially drops October 9th! That&#8217;s only 28 days away!!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/0bNbfaBcOaeOI\/340x.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I gotta say though that like some you guys, I&#8217;m not as excited as I normally am for the upcoming season. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m still excited and always will be. But with the departure of key guys like Nazzy and Mo (and now Brad Isbister too!) I&#8217;m actually feeling more uncertain as a result.<\/p>\n<p>It almost feels as though I&#8217;m back to the way I felt in the summer of &#8217;06 before Lui came to town, not expecting anything out of this team. If they make it to the playoffs this year, it&#8217;ll be considered a successful season (to me at least).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/bios\/2007\/09\/06\/don_taylor150x188_150.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And ever since Brian got the hockey pool (sign up for it <a href=\"http:\/\/hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8211; just make an account and then go <a href=\"http:\/\/hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com\/league\/cool_pool\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) for the 08-09 season up and running I&#8217;ve been getting more and more into the hockey mood. It&#8217;s getting really boring seeing half an hour&#8217;s worth of baseball highlights every night on Connected. Poor Donny Taylor having to talk about it every night. <\/p>\n<p>As for actually <span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">playing <\/span>hockey, I&#8217;ve kinda started itching for that again &#8211; nothing beats FREE FUN :) Just gotta get new wheels and maybe some new pads?  <\/p>\n<p>Anyways it&#8217;s time to get my ass ready for school!<\/p>\n<p>GO CANUCKS GO! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey season is right around the corner &#8211; training camp is set to get under way not too long from now and the puck officially drops October 9th! That&#8217;s only 28 days away!! I gotta say though that like some you guys, I&#8217;m not as excited as I normally am for the upcoming season. Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}