{"id":205,"date":"2011-06-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-06-27T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:00:00","slug":"stanley-cup-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/06\/27\/stanley-cup-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stanley Cup 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog6\/cupfinal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My team, the Edmonton Oilers, didn&#8217;t make the playoffs again. Instead I cheered for the Canadian teams that made the top 16: Montreal Canadiens\/Vancouver Canucks. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Montreal took Boston to game 7 in a mighty first round series only to lose in overtime. This was too bad because Montreal was super fun to watch. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Vancouver scarcely advanced past the 2010 Cup Champs in round 1, then a bit more present against the Predators in round 2, and finally at the top of their game against a fast San Jos\u00e9.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The final brought the team who had dispatched Montreal to play Vancouver. It was a painfully exciting series. Exciting when the games were in Vancouver because the Canucks would win and painful when the games were in Boston because Boston would pulverize them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I couldn&#8217;t watch the third period of game 7 because Boston had taken a 3-0 lead in the second period. Vancouver had such promise, but because of several injuries, a bullying Bruin team, and a weak showing from their top scorers in the final, they really had no chance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Edmonton 2013!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My team, the Edmonton Oilers, didn&#8217;t make the playoffs again. Instead I cheered for the Canadian teams that made the top 16: Montreal Canadiens\/Vancouver Canucks. Montreal took Boston to game 7 in a mighty first round series only to lose in overtime. This was too bad because Montreal was super fun to watch. Vancouver scarcely &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/06\/27\/stanley-cup-2011\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-205","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-canadiana","9":"category-sports","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}