{"id":669,"date":"2006-04-07T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2006-04-07T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:47:41","slug":"the-mall-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"The Mall is open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the deal would be contingent on a new arena, but Penguins fans, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Penguins to Hartford?\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nhl\/news\/story?id=2400450\">this is what you get<\/a> for taking Ron Francis!<\/p>\n<p>If this went through, I&#8217;d be in a pretty weird situation. I don&#8217;t have any ties to the Hartford area, really, but the novelty of being a Hartford fan through the late 80&#8217;s\/early 90&#8217;s was fun. And if Mario Lemieux somehow stayed involved, it would be tough to pull for them, but having a team in Hartford that would get anything it wanted from the NHL would be fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I&#8217;d probably just stick with the &#8216;Canes and Jackets and not wish the Pittsburgh Whalers any specific harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the deal would be contingent on a new arena, but Penguins fans, this is what you get for taking Ron Francis! If this went through, I&#8217;d be in a pretty weird situation. I don&#8217;t have any ties to the Hartford area, really, but the novelty of being a Hartford fan through the late &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mall is open!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}