{"id":1146,"date":"2016-05-20T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2016-05-20T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:15:15","slug":"may-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"May Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s far from a done deal, of course, but if the Cleveland Cavaliers don\u2019t end up facing the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals I will be shocked.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be several suicides among executives at the TV stations set to broadcast those games.<\/p>\n<p>I know I\u2019m getting ahead of myself, but it has been some time since two titans at the tops of their games faced one another for a championship. This is set to be very, very good.<\/p>\n<p>With extra travel days added to the schedule the Finals are now potentially 18 days long. That\u2019s one day shy of March Madness (excluding the First Four), only here it\u2019s all #1 seeds facing each other all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven can wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s far from a done deal, of course, but if the Cleveland Cavaliers don\u2019t end up facing the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals I will be shocked. There will also be several suicides among executives at the TV &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1146\">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-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}