{"id":2144,"date":"2006-01-27T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2006-01-27T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T22:02:21","slug":"a_homecoming_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"A Homecoming for Bart Starr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&amp;etMailToID=619358976\">Allen Barra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For the man who will stride to midfield for the coin toss before the Super Bowl next weekend, it will be something of a homecoming.<\/p>\n<p>Bart Starr, one of football&#8217;s greatest quarterbacks and the most important player of the Green Bay Packers dynasty in the 1960s, stepped away from the game and the public eye in 1988 after a family tragedy. Kickoff of Super Bowl XL will see his public reunion with the National Football League. And after the game he&#8217;ll be presenting the Lombardi Trophy, named after his old coach, the man with whom he won five NFL championships and two Super Bowls.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Barra: For the man who will stride to midfield for the coin toss before the Super Bowl next weekend, it will be something of a homecoming. Bart Starr, one of football&#8217;s greatest quarterbacks and the most important player of the Green Bay Packers dynasty in the 1960s, stepped away from the game and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}