{"id":5101,"date":"2011-01-01T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2011-01-01T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:24:20","slug":"a-quick-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5101","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Look Back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z010111me_10th.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we head into a <strong>new year<\/strong>, I always take a moment or two to<strong> look back<\/strong>.\u00a0 Since today is the <strong>first day <\/strong>of <strong>2011<\/strong>&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 The top photo is of me taken during the middle of a tough game.\u00a0 I was a sophomore at <strong>Mainland High School<\/strong> and played defensive tackle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z010111me_singletary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This photo is of me and <strong>Mike Singletary<\/strong>.\u00a0 The <strong>Chicago Bears<\/strong> have always been my favorite <strong>pro football <\/strong>team.\u00a0 <strong>Mike Singletary<\/strong> is one of my all-time favorite players [and he would have been even if he wasn&#8217;t a <strong>Chicago Bear<\/strong>].\u00a0 <strong>Singletary<\/strong> was never the biggest player on the field, but he always played with the most heart.\u00a0 I got a chance to meet <strong>Mike <\/strong>back in<strong> 1993 <\/strong>or<strong> 1994<\/strong>.\u00a0 He had been brought in as an inspirational speaker and I was lucky enough to get some face to face time with him afterward.\u00a0 Funny, but my hair doesn&#8217;t look as gray in that photo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into a new year, I always take a moment or two to look back.\u00a0 Since today is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-sports","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}