{"id":805,"date":"2004-04-10T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:43:16","slug":"805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/10\/805\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Perspective From&#8230;.Tie Domi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hockey playoffs have started, and the highly-paid athletes have begun puffing themselves and their profession with hyperbolic metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>Tie Domi, the Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer known as the Albanian Aggressor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/NewsStand\/TorontoSun\/Sports\/2004\/04\/08\/413047.html\" target=\"new\">interjected a little perspective<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Domi did want to get something else off his chest, however. Peter Bondra said he thinks the series could be &#8220;a war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Using the word war is getting a little stupid in our game, especially in our rivalry,&#8221; Domi said. &#8220;Out of respect to the war that is going on, I don&#8217;t think it should be used. Those guys are fighting a real war and it is insulting to them.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never thought I would utter or type these words, but <i><b>Tie Domi is right<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/hockeypundits.com\/2004_04_01_archives.html#108146590201469999\" target=\"new\">Hockey Pundits<\/a>, whose commenters all attack Domi for the comments.  I assume they&#8217;re Canadians and don&#8217;t need perspective, since they&#8217;re ultimately protected in their myopia by their benevolent neighbor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hockey playoffs have started, and the highly-paid athletes have begun puffing themselves and their profession with hyperbolic metaphor. Tie Domi, the Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer known as the Albanian Aggressor, interjected a little perspective: Domi did want to get something else off his chest, however. Peter Bondra said he thinks the series could be [&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-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23461,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/23461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}