{"id":40708,"date":"2015-11-23T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40708"},"modified":"2015-11-23T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:02:12","slug":"letter-to-my-younger-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40708","title":{"rendered":"Letter to My Younger Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/bryan-trottier-nhl-letter-to-my-younger-self\/\">Brian Trottier<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kid, I\u2019m from the future. I\u2019m you, 50 years from now. You\u2019re looking at me like, \u201cYou? The guy with the mustache and all the scars? What the heck happened to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The disco era. That will inspire the mustache.<br \/>\n18 seasons in the NHL. That will give you the scars.<br \/>\nNow I know you\u2019re thinking \u2014 that\u2019s impossible. There\u2019s no way. You\u2019re 10 years old, and you just watched Jean Beliveau lift the Stanley Cup on Hockey Night in Canada on your black and white TV in 1966. It seemed like the broadcast was coming from the moon. It didn\u2019t seem real. You tell your parents you want to be Jean Beliveau, but it\u2019s like you\u2019re saying you want to be Superman.<\/p>\n<p>And you \u2014 you\u2019re just kid on a farm in Saskatchewan in the \u201960s. Life is so simple. There\u2019s precisely one TV channel. You\u2019ve never even seen a \u201chockey card.\u201d There\u2019s an actual siren that goes off at 9 p.m. in your tiny town that warns all the kids to go home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/bryan-trottier-nhl-letter-to-my-younger-self\/\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Trottier Kid, I\u2019m from the future. I\u2019m you, 50 years from now. You\u2019re looking at me like, \u201cYou? The guy with the mustache and all the scars? What the heck happened to me?\u201d Well \u2026 The disco era. That will inspire the mustache. 18 seasons in the NHL. That will give you the scars. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ice-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}