{"id":142,"date":"2007-04-07T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/04\/go-leafs-go\/"},"modified":"2015-07-31T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T11:43:42","slug":"go-leafs-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/04\/go-leafs-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Leafs Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapleleafs.com\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> were facing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ottawasenators.com\/\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> in the second game of the second round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/\">Stanley Cup playoffs<\/a>. The Sens won the first game; so game 2 was seen as a must win for the Leafs. I watched every second of that game, hoping that my beloved Leafs would win. That game went to overtime. After one overtime period, the game was still tied, and I turned off the television.  Why? Because it was my Easter, and I had to leave for church. I didn&#8217;t find out, until I heard on the radio on the way home, that the Leafs had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/story\/2002\/05\/04\/sens-leafs020504.html\">won the game in the third overtime period<\/a>. May my commitment to God never be questioned. I missed triple overtime! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the Toronto Maple Leafs play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiens.com\/\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> in a win-or-die game sponsored by <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.betcode.co.uk\/promo-code\/betvictor\/\"><font color=\"#555555\">BetVictor<\/font><\/a>; and of course, I have to go to church for Easter. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, the Toronto Maple Leafs were facing the Ottawa Senators in the second game of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Sens won the first game; so game 2 was seen as a must win for&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/04\/go-leafs-go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}