{"id":8371,"date":"2017-04-14T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T07:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:53:10","slug":"proberts-ashes-to-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/14\/proberts-ashes-to-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Probert&#8217;s Ashes Sent To Penalty Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2017\/04\/11\/nhl-enforcer-bob-proberts-widow-sprinkled-his-ashes-in-red-wings-penalty-box\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline-kicker\">NHL enforcer Bob Probert\u2019s widow sprinkled his ashes in Red Wings\u2019 penalty box<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/des-bieler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Des Bieler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wz2mUlKsZfY\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bob Probert carved out a fearsome reputation as an enforcer, during a lengthy career spent with the Red Wings and Blackhawks, before dying of a heart attack in 2010 at age 45. So with Detroit\u2019s Joe Louis Arena set to host its final game Sunday, Probert\u2019s widow found the perfect way to honor both her husband\u2019s memory and that of the facility in which he performed for nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p>By scattering some of his ashes in the penalty box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is bittersweet for me,\u201d Dani Probert, the widow of 6-foot-3, 230-pound former player, told the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/red-wings\/2017\/04\/09\/red-wings-joe-louis-arena\/100267506\/\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Free Press<\/a>\u00a0before Sunday\u2019s game, which featured numerous ceremonies and appearances from several past Red Wings stars. \u201cI have brought some of Bob\u2019s ashes to the game. At Christmas time, I came here with my family and the urn with his ashes and we took a photo of us sitting in the penalty box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2017\/04\/11\/nhl-enforcer-bob-proberts-widow-sprinkled-his-ashes-in-red-wings-penalty-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post NHL enforcer Bob Probert\u2019s widow sprinkled his ashes in Red Wings\u2019 penalty box By\u00a0Des Bieler Bob Probert carved out a fearsome reputation as an enforcer, during a lengthy career spent with the Red Wings and Blackhawks, before dying of a heart attack in 2010 at age 45. So with Detroit\u2019s Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}