{"id":338,"date":"2011-07-08T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-07-08T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T18:49:54","slug":"yao-hangs-up-the-big-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2011\/07\/08\/yao-hangs-up-the-big-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yao Hangs Up The Big Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yao-ming.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yao-ming-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yao-ming\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yao-ming-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yao-ming.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWow, although it was apparent that Yao Ming was going to retire, it still comes off as surprising. The 7&#8217;6&#8243; center, when healthy, was a dominate force for the Houston Rockets. Yao averaged 19 points and 9 boards. As a Rockets fan, this really sucks. Good luck to the big fella and who knows? Maybe he&#8217;ll still do another year once the lockout is over. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, although it was apparent that Yao Ming was going to retire, it still comes off as surprising. The 7&#8217;6&#8243; center, when healthy, was a dominate force for the Houston Rockets. Yao averaged 19 points and 9 boards. As a Rockets fan, this really sucks. Good luck to the big fella and who knows? Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13],"tags":[635,1174,1519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}