{"id":3418,"date":"2012-02-01T20:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2012-02-01T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:13:35","slug":"nhl-hockey-player-flies-700-miles-to-rescue-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/nhl-hockey-player-flies-700-miles-to-rescue-dogs","title":{"rendered":"NHL Hockey Player Flies 700 Miles to Rescue Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Backes, an NHL hockey player for the St. Louis Blues, made a 700 mile journey to rescue three dogs. \u00a0Backes flew with his wife and flight instructor from St. Louis to Houston. \u00a0Before he was an NHL star, Backes played hockey in the USHL for the Lincoln Stars here in Lincoln, Nebraska. \u00a0 \u00a0Along with his passion for hockey, Backes also has an appreciation for rescuing animals and flying. \u00a0According to his flight instructor, he&#8217;s well on his way to getting his license. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox2now.com\/news\/ktvi-blues-player-flies-plane-700-miles-to-rescue-3-stray-dogs-20120130,0,2550777.story\"><b><u><font color=\"blue\">Click here<\/font><\/b><\/u><\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Backes, an NHL hockey player for the St. Louis Blues, made a 700 mile journey to rescue three dogs. \u00a0Backes flew with his wife and flight instructor from St. Louis to Houston. \u00a0Before he was an NHL star, Backes played hockey in the USHL for the Lincoln Stars here in Lincoln, Nebraska. \u00a0 \u00a0Along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eaa-569-news"],"new_scheduled_revision":null,"save_as_revision":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaa569.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}