{"id":15689,"date":"2002-08-08T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-08T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/08\/this-might-be-an-old-rumor-by-now-but-i-figured\/"},"modified":"2002-08-08T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-08T19:13:00","slug":"this-might-be-an-old-rumor-by-now-but-i-figured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/08\/this-might-be-an-old-rumor-by-now-but-i-figured\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might be an old rumor by now, but I figured I&rsquo;d repeat it.  Apparently there are whispers among the NHL that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/215\/sports\/Rumors_have_Gretzky_planning_a_comeback+.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Gretzky might make a comeback<\/a> a la Mario Lemieux and Michael Jordan.  The Great One denies these rumors, saying &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not coming back, trust me.  I&rsquo;m about three lines away from our fourth unit.&rdquo;  I hope that these &ldquo;workouts&rdquo; being cited as evidence for his return are just that and that he&rsquo;s not contemplating returning to the NHL.  As much as I&rsquo;d like to see him play again, seeing any former great play as a shadow of his former self is a travesty IMHO.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85327207?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be an old rumor by now, but I figured I&rsquo;d repeat it. Apparently there are whispers among the NHL that Wayne Gretzky might make a comeback a la Mario Lemieux and Michael Jordan. The Great One denies these rumors, saying &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not coming back, trust me. I&rsquo;m about three lines away from our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/08\/this-might-be-an-old-rumor-by-now-but-i-figured\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}