{"id":769,"date":"2006-07-13T06:39:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/07\/13\/wayne-gretzsky-and-gambling\/"},"modified":"2006-07-13T06:39:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:39:57","slug":"wayne-gretzsky-and-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/07\/13\/wayne-gretzsky-and-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Gretzsky and Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I see this commercial last night that Wayne Gretzsky is doing. Now he is my ultimate favorite hockey player right up there with Rocket Richard and I know for a fact that he swore when he left playing hockey he would only endorse products that gave back to the community and helped children. So he now is working with Lotto for a new lottery tickey and the top prize is a day with him. Now I would just about give my eye teeth to win that. 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