{"id":538,"date":"2011-10-25T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T13:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T13:28:37","slug":"aaron-smith-to-placed-on-ir-and-will-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Smith placed on IR, career probably over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Smith was placed on IR\u00a0most likely\u00a0ending his 12 year, illustrious career. He was a true Steeler and a great gentleman of the game. He never sought publicity and quietly anchored down the Steelers defensive line! One of the best 3-4 Defensive ends of all time, he will be sorely missed both on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p>There is a saying in the NFL; &#8220;next man up&#8221;! It is hard to say that about a guy like Aaron Smith so easily.\u00a0He just exemplifies what people and players should be. The Steelers are in great hands with Ziggy Hood and &#8220;Steelhead&#8221; Heyward,\u00a0but it is hard not to feel a loss on this one! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to show what kind of character this guys has:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/08349\/935071-66.stm\">http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/08349\/935071-66.stm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Smith was placed on IR\u00a0most likely\u00a0ending his 12 year, illustrious career. He was a true Steeler and a great gentleman of the game. He never sought publicity and quietly anchored down the Steelers defensive line! One of the best 3-4 Defensive ends of all time, he will be sorely missed both on and off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}