{"id":20404,"date":"2018-04-18T20:31:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20404"},"modified":"2018-04-18T20:31:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:31:20","slug":"tigers-thomson-commits-to-laurier-golden-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/tigers-thomson-commits-to-laurier-golden-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers\u2019 Thomson commits to Laurier Golden Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Thomson is trading in his claws for talons.<br \/>\nOne of the longest-tenured patrollers of the Aurora blue line, the Tigers defenseman announced his commitment on Sunday to the Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Hawks of Canadian USports.<br \/>\n\u201cVery excited to announce my commitment to play CIS hockey at WLU\u201d, said Thomson in a tweet. Thank you to my family, friends, and everyone else involved for your constant support. Can\u2019t wait to get the next chapter started!\u201d<br \/>\nA minor career with the York-Simcoe Express translated to a young junior season for the 6\u20194\u201d blueliner, who joined the Kanata Lasers for the 2014-15 Central Canada Hockey League season.<br \/>\nHe became a staple of the Tigers defense core when his father, ex-NHLer Jim Thomson, bought the Aurora Tigers Junior A organization the following season.<br \/>\nPutting up 27 points in 46 games in his last junior season, he also reached the OJHL finals in 2016-17 as a short-time member of the Trenton Golden Hawks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Thomson is trading in his claws for talons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-19-07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}