{"id":1182,"date":"2016-04-17T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2016-04-17T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:29:00","slug":"hockey-comes-back-to-worcester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/hockey-comes-back-to-worcester\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Comes Back to Worcester"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Miss<\/a>
Miss Worcester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the author of the wildly popular* Trip to the Quiet Room,<\/a> a story about loss, time travel, the life of a hockey player, a little bit of magic, and Worcester, Massachusetts, I’m really happy to see that Worcester is getting a minor league hockey team back. I’m even happier to see that the owner is investing so much in the hockey culture in and around the downtown area in Worcester<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m kind of smitten with Worcester. It’s an unpolished gem,” he said. “It’s affordable, it’s smack in the middle of commerce. It’s got a lot of potential.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nI remember going to see Worcester Ice Cats in their inaugural season in 1994 with some of the gang at the seafood restaurant I worked at. The AHL was such a different beast than the NHL… that bit sloppier, scrappier, and perfectly suited to a town like Worcester. It made such an impression that even nearly twenty years later, when I started to write what would become\u00c2\u00a0Trip to the Quiet Room<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I thought that the stories of those guys, particularly when their professional hockey life was done, would make for a great character. And the line, the theme I had rattling around my head while I was writing was from fellow Worcester-ite (and Vassar-ite) Liz\u00c2\u00a0Bishop<\/a>‘s opening lines of “In the Waiting Room<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

In Worcester, Massachusetts,
\nI went with Aunt Consuelo
\nto keep her dentist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appointment
\nand sat and waited for her
\nin the dentist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s waiting room.
\nIt was winter. It got dark
\nearly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s very nice to see hockey on its way back into Worcester to fill those dark winter nights and encouraging to see such a commitment to one of my favorite cities, that rough gem.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"A
A Worcester three decker, William Murphy’s apartment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

* Warning: May not actually be popular. Contains sucralose, which has been shown to give rats and dogs a real headache when taken in quantity. Do not spray on crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the author of the wildly popular* Trip to the Quiet Room, a story about loss, time travel, the life of a hockey player, a little bit of magic, and Worcester, Massachusetts, I’m really happy to see that Worcester is getting a minor league hockey team back. I’m even happier to see that the owner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}