{"id":1555,"date":"2010-02-27T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:11:30","slug":"hockey-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/02\/hockey-queens.html","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lG670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Classy Canada\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lG670.jpg\" alt=\"Classy Canada\" width=\"275\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>I have great respect for women hockey players.  Let&#8217;s face it, I&#8217;m not brave enough not to.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lG670.jpg\">This picture<\/a> may explain why.\u00a0 And it brings back a few memories.<\/p>\n<p>I went to school in the great frozen north where hockey wasn&#8217;t just a sport, it was a religion.\u00a0 And it was also the first time I realized that there was even such a thing as women hockey players.\u00a0 There were a few of them living in my dorm.\u00a0 And while they were great girls, they were also the toughest women I&#8217;ve ever met.\u00a0 They are better men than your dad will ever be.\u00a0 So the notion that Women&#8217;s Team Canada might celebrate with a cigar and a can of beer is not remotely a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have great respect for women hockey players. Let&#8217;s face it, I&#8217;m not brave enough not to.\u00a0 This picture may<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/02\/hockey-queens.html\" title=\"Read Hockey Queens\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justforfun","category-sliceoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}