{"id":5941,"date":"2018-05-01T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tricityrd.com\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2018-08-24T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T00:50:08","slug":"farewell-konky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/farewell-konky\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Konky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does anyone begin to describe the impact that number two thousand has had on Tri-City and the sport of modern flat track roller derby at large?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we need to borrow a phrase from another fandom: Konky quite simply, is and was The People\u2019s Champion. Ask the children at the bout who they are here to see, and the answer is clear. The die-hards in lawn chairs and blankets always hope that Konky jumps some bodies in the warm-up. They may still do for some time to come.<\/p>\n<p>Self-taught, self-aware and eyes on the prize, Konky directed her own career with enviable candour. If it wasn\u2019t right, she didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Always a showboat but never a slow boat, she remains the epitome of a skater who always understood the connection between skater and fan.<\/p>\n<p>Long live derby, and long live the legacy of Konky.<\/p>\n<p>By: Lightning Slim, Tri-City Roller Derby announcer<\/p>\n<p><em>An OG skater who started in January 2008, Konky skated her last game with the Venus Fly Tramps at the Beast of the East Tournament April 28-29. For more photos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/tricityrollerderby\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=10156344799585682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#2000 has made an impact on many in her derby career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tricityrd.com\/tcrd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}