{"id":525494,"date":"2026-03-07T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:15:09","slug":"hughes-meets-photographer-who-snapped-iconic-olympic-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525494\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes meets photographer who snapped iconic Olympic photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils forward met up with Elsa Garrison \u2013 who snapped the iconic shot of Hughes, draped in an American flag, celebrating after his golden goal at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 \u2013 before the Devils game against the New York Rangers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Garrison is a New Jersey local and often photographs Devils games.<\/p>\n<p>The two posed for a photo after Hughes gifted Garrison with a signed copy of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of surreal,&#8221; Garrison said of meeting Hughes before the game. &#8220;It was kind of surreal and I was kind of like, this is cool. We&#8217;re both kind of [tied] together because of that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils forward met up with Elsa Garrison \u2013 who snapped the iconic shot of Hughes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-525494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}