{"id":28792,"date":"2021-08-13T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28792"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:59:41","slug":"i-know-his-name-is-jaromir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/13\/i-know-his-name-is-jaromir\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know His Name Is Jaromir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/13\/jaromir-jagr-has-no-choice-but-to-keep-playing-pro-hockey-at-49\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaromir Jagr has \u2018no choice\u2019 but to keep playing as he nears 50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly to honor his father:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs long as my father breathes, I take the club as my responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cHe held it for 20 years. As a son, I would be embarrassed if I left.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is better than having to work for a living because he spent his athlete millions on hookers and coke.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of mirrors, in a way, his former teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mario_Lemieux\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Lemiuex<\/a>, who took an ownership stake in the Pittsburgh Penguins when they went bankrupt and then un-retired to play six more seasons for his own hockey club.<\/p>\n<p>(Jaromir Jagr, as you might recall, is the source of that one thing <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/the-origin-of-that-other-thing-daddy-always-says\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Daddy always says<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaromir Jagr has \u2018no choice\u2019 but to keep playing as he nears 50. It&#8217;s mostly to honor his father: \u201cAs long as my father breathes, I take the club as my responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cHe held it for 20 years. As a son, I would be embarrassed if I left.\u201d Which is better than having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28793,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions\/28793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}