{"id":34434,"date":"2026-10-09T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=34434"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:08:20","slug":"passing-of-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/passing-of-a-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of a Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/100926-passing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/100926-passing.jpg 838w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/100926-passing-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/100926-passing-266x281.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/100926-passing-768x812.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The news hit hard today and evoked tears from those here not prone to hold them in reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ditka was a fixture for all those raised in SE Michigan. He wasn&#8217;t one of their Lions, but he was a feature of every NFL weekend in the Fall across most of the years in a century!<\/p>\n<p>We honor his passing, and the passing of his times with respect and farewell. We are busy trying to figure out what is coming next in our spin through the cosmos!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news hit hard today and evoked tears from those here not prone to hold them in reserve. Coach Ditka was a fixture for all those raised in SE Michigan. He wasn&#8217;t one of their Lions, but he was a feature of every NFL weekend in the Fall across most of the years in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34437,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34434\/revisions\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}