{"id":1326,"date":"2016-10-21T17:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:48:50","slug":"cubs-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"Cubs on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As ridiculous as I found Wednesday night&#8217;s &#8220;debate&#8221; between &#8220;presidential&#8221; contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, at least it makes for good television. Sometimes. It&#8217;s a little tough to watch, considering the guy I want to win does a pretty poor job, I think, of making his case. Luckily for him I&#8217;m on board anyway.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting, of course, is this year&#8217;s MLB playoffs, now that its most darling team is one win from the World Series. Its second-most darling team is already in.<\/p>\n<p>Network executives continue to pinch themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ridiculous as I found Wednesday night&#8217;s &#8220;debate&#8221; between &#8220;presidential&#8221; contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, at least it makes for good television. Sometimes. It&#8217;s a little tough to watch, considering the guy I want to win does a pretty &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1326\">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-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","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=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}