{"id":639,"date":"2005-08-04T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=639"},"modified":"2005-12-09T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T02:54:25","slug":"if-only-he-signed-with-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/if-only-he-signed-with-new-jersey","title":{"rendered":"If only he signed with New Jersey&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a hockey fan, but I am glad that the NHL has reached labor peace and is getting ready for a new season, if only because it means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/players\/8459534.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miroslav Satan<\/a> got to test the free-agent waters, leading to headlines like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/sports\/islanders\/51449.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MILBURY TRADES PECA,<br \/>CUTS DEAL WITH SATAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, his deal was with the Islanders. If he played for the Devils, I&#8217;d have bought my first-ever hockey sweater (don&#8217;t get me started on my pile of basketball jerseys, including an Argentine national team jersey).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a hockey fan, but I am glad that the NHL has reached labor peace and is getting ready for a new season, if only because it means Miroslav Satan got to test the free-agent waters, leading to headlines like this one: MILBURY TRADES PECA,CUTS DEAL WITH SATAN Unfortunately, his deal was with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/if-only-he-signed-with-new-jersey\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If only he signed with New Jersey&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-aj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5053,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-3110","url_meta":{"origin":639,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 3\/1\/10","author":"Gil","date":"March 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Alec: The Years Have Pants, and an article in the New Yorker about Montaigne that one of my pals forwarded me a few month ago. 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