{"id":1040,"date":"2016-03-07T16:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2016-03-07T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T12:41:48","slug":"this-is-a-good-time-to-be-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"This is a good time to be alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit that after one episode of Season Four of\u00a0<em>House of Cards<\/em> I was a bit disappointed. I&#8217;d thought the magic was finally gone and I was watching just another show worthy of about a third-rate cable station, one that somehow combined the worst elements of\u00a0<em>The West Wing<\/em> and your average soap opera or dime store novel.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Netflix, you always prove me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I am now into Season Four and I must say once again I am\u00a0<em>into<\/em> it. The folks at Netflix and\u00a0<em>HOC<\/em> Inc. are not resting on their laurels and subscription dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of great TV, that now makes <em>three<\/em> shows I am currently watching, unheard of in 2016. These days you&#8217;ve got\u00a0<em>Better Call Saul<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The People v. O.J. Simpson<\/em> (which just gets better and better with what&#8217;s happening in real life), and the aforementioned\u00a0<em>HOC<\/em>. Add in\u00a0<em>Archer<\/em> beginning later this month and you&#8217;re set for Spring. What is this the 1990s? (And I mean that in a good way.)<\/p>\n<p>But first, tonight, as a little appetizer&#8230; Monmouth playing for a spot in the NCAA Tournament? This is a good time to be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit that after one episode of Season Four of\u00a0House of Cards I was a bit disappointed. I&#8217;d thought the magic was finally gone and I was watching just another show worthy of about a third-rate cable station, one that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}