{"id":1005,"date":"2007-10-08T23:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T03:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/a-little-more-on-my-little-brother\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:37:31","slug":"a-little-more-on-my-little-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/a-little-more-on-my-little-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"A little more on my little brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that the article about Steve didn&#8217;t go into was how he was spending his &#8220;summer off&#8221; after ending his hockey career.<\/p>\n<p>I think I can explain that in pictorial form. Here&#8217;s a picture from late summer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/Steve\/late_summer.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Late Summer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/Steve\/_late_summer.jpg\" title=\"Late Summer\" alt=\"Late Summer\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s a picture from early fall:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/Steve\/early_fall.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Early Fall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/Steve\/_early_fall.jpg\" title=\"Early Fall\" alt=\"Early Fall\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s quote: &#8220;42.5 inches, 16.5 lbs. I still want the big one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he&#8217;ll get the chance to find that big one now that he&#8217;s on to his next career&#8211;I suspect that since he lives on the lake, he won&#8217;t have any trouble finding time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and check out the mouth on that thing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/Steve\/early_fall_mouth.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Early Fall Mouth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/10\/Steve\/_early_fall_mouth.jpg\" title=\"Early Fall Mouth\" alt=\"Early Fall Mouth\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought my Dad was kidding when he used to joke about how the &#8220;Muskie will bite your toes&#8221;, but Steve pulled those things out of the same lake we swam in as kids, so I guess not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">One thing that the article about Steve didn&#8217;t go into was how he was spending his &#8220;summer off&#8221; after ending his hockey career. I think I can explain that in pictorial form. Here&#8217;s a picture from late summer: and here&#8217;s a picture from early fall: Steve&#8217;s quote: &#8220;42.5 inches, 16.5 lbs. I still want the big one.&#8221; I wonder if&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/a-little-more-on-my-little-brother\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[461],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-family","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}