{"id":19,"date":"2007-09-08T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2007\/09\/one-last-memory\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T22:30:35","slug":"one-last-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2007\/09\/one-last-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon champion James Hird retired from the AFL last weekend. Hoping for a fairytale win as a send off, things didn&#8217;t look good at three-quarter time when the Bombers were down to the Eagles by 50 points.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mLdAfwHzB4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the huddle, Hird pleaded to the players for &#8220;one last memory&#8221; before he retired.<\/p>\n<p>The players, and in particular, Scott Lucas, responded. And although they didn&#8217;t win in the end, they got within 2 points &#8211; and fulfilled Hird&#8217;s wish for an afternoon to remember.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon champion James Hird retired from the AFL last weekend. Hoping for a fairytale win as a send off, things didn&#8217;t look good at three-quarter time when the Bombers were down to the Eagles by 50 points. At the huddle, Hird pleaded to the players for &#8220;one last memory&#8221; before he retired. The players, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}