{"id":2434,"date":"2012-04-12T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/ex-seattle-thunderbird-nate-thompson-makes-team-usa-hockey\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T11:00:33","slug":"ex-seattle-thunderbird-nate-thompson-makes-team-usa-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/ex-seattle-thunderbird-nate-thompson-makes-team-usa-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Seattle Thunderbird Nate Thompson makes Team USA | Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Former Seattle Thunderbird forward Nate Thompson has been chosen to compete for <a title=\"usa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usahockey.com\/Template_Usahockey.aspx?NAV=TU_01_03&amp;id=316727\" target=\"_self\">Team USA<\/a> at the International Ice Hockey Federation&#8217;s 2012 World Championships May 4-20 in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Thompson played with the T-Birds four seasons from 2001 to 2005. He now <a title=\"tampa\" href=\"http:\/\/lightning.nhl.com\/club\/player.htm?id=8470775\" target=\"_self\">plays with the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>. Thompson played 68 games this season for the Lightning and had nine goals and 15 points.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great experience,\u201d Thompson said on the Tampa Bay website. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a chance to go over there representing the US and hopefully take home gold. It will be very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Thompson is from Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Seattle Thunderbird forward Nate Thompson has been chosen to compete for Team USA at the International Ice Hockey Federation&#8217;s 2012 World Championships May 4-20 in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}