{"id":1443,"date":"2017-01-31T02:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T22:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2017-01-31T02:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T22:15:25","slug":"theres-no-escaping-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"There’s no escaping it"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all that is going on in the world these days it is nice to know we have sports, sweet sports, to divert our minds from the calamities upon us.<\/p>\n

Then I open yesterday\u2019s Washington Post<\/em> and flip immediately to the sports section to find a front-page article about the trials and tribulations of a Muslim basketball team in Donald Trump\u2019s America.<\/p>\n

Is nothing sacred anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all that is going on in the world these days it is nice to know we have sports, sweet sports, to divert our minds from the calamities upon us. Then I open yesterday\u2019s Washington Post and flip immediately to … Continue reading →<\/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-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","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=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}