{"id":7959,"date":"2014-02-06T19:33:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2014-02-06T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:33:46","slug":"ice-dreams-sochi-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7959","title":{"rendered":"ICE DREAMS, SOCHI OLYMPICS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight is the first night of the Olympics<\/a>; my favorite television viewing. I am excited to see the competition, who will peak at the right moment. Young, like so many people I dreamed of \u00a0Olympic competition. I never did for a variety of reasons, even after qualifying more than once.<\/p>\n

\"THE<\/a>
THE UNITED STATES ALL STARS 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"IN<\/a>
IN SWEDEN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"MAKING<\/a>
MAKING ICE AT ST. GEORGE’S<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"WINNING<\/a>
WINNING GOAL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"RICHIE<\/a>
RICHIE SAYER, STEPHEN LIRAKIS, DUBY JOSLIN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking at these images reminds me of how crude the gear was. St. George’s had one of the only artificial rinks south of Boston. Outdoors and subject to the whims of Nature. We would return from Thanksgiving vacation and start to make ice; usually spraying at night and we would take shifts working through the night over several days to try to build a base. Our 14 game schedule seemed imposing then. Today schedules are much longer and packed with games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight is the first night of the Olympics; my favorite television viewing. I am excited to see the competition, who will peak at the right moment. Young, like so many people I dreamed of \u00a0Olympic competition. I never did for a variety of reasons, even after qualifying more than once. Looking at these images reminds … Continue reading ICE DREAMS, SOCHI OLYMPICS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1947],"tags":[1949,1948,2654],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-olympics","tag-figure-skating","tag-hockey","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}