{"id":1148,"date":"2016-05-23T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2016-05-23T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:10:43","slug":"even-a-bad-day-watching-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Even a bad day watching sports&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t expect either NBA game this weekend to turn out quite like\u00a0<em>that<\/em>. Wins for the Raptors and Thunder? Let alone blowouts? I stand by a Cleveland-Golden State final as has everyone since October.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly I must say thank you, hockey, for lending some excitement to last night&#8217;s late night viewing (and a sarcastic thanks to 1-0 baseball games over in two and a half hours). Sudden-death playoff hockey is always good, though if the Stanley Cup Finals ends up being Tampa Bay-San Jose we&#8217;re going to again have studio executives jumping off buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay-San Jose? Hockey?<\/p>\n<p>That makes Toronto-OKC look like Golden State-Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what it\u00a0<em>would<\/em> look like if anyone actually watched it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t expect either NBA game this weekend to turn out quite like\u00a0that. Wins for the Raptors and Thunder? Let alone blowouts? I stand by a Cleveland-Golden State final as has everyone since October. Secondly I must say thank &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1148\">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-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}