{"id":6447,"date":"2012-09-17T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2012-09-17T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:00:37","slug":"remembering-nobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/09\/remembering-nobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Nobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Clarke_(Australian_footballer)\">Neil &#8216;Nobby&#8217; Clarke<\/a> was never a superstar of Australian Rules football, that&#8217;s not what he wanted to be.  He just wanted to play football with his mates, and with those mates, he went to the pinnacle of the game.  Twice &#8211; in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_VFL_Grand_Final\">1984<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1985_VFL_Grand_Final\">1985<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, on the inside, he struggled with depression, eventually taking his own life in 2003.<\/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\/yecXHBAs5NQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nobby was never my favourite player, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Essendon_Football_Club\">Essendon<\/a> fans loved him, because he loved the club, and played his heart out for the club.<\/p>\n<p>He may be gone, but he is not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ruokday.com\/\">RU OK? Day<\/a>, dealing with depression &#8211; (particularly in helping people around us who we might not know are struggling in their lives) &#8211; has been very much in focus.<\/p>\n<p>Check on the family and friends you haven&#8217;t heard from in a while.<\/p>\n<p>They may just need you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil &#8216;Nobby&#8217; Clarke was never a superstar of Australian Rules football, that&#8217;s not what he wanted to be. He just wanted to play football with his mates, and with those mates, he went to the pinnacle of the game. Twice &#8211; in 1984 and 1985. However, on the inside, he struggled with depression, eventually taking [&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":[34,181,210,462],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-afl","tag-depression","tag-essendon","tag-ruok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","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=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}