{"id":1550,"date":"2017-05-05T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:30:38","slug":"would-the-real-washington-wizards-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Would the real Washington Wizards please stand up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell me that was the real you last night, the you that can actually compete with the NBA&#8217;s better half (and for more than just the first quarter, please!). Don&#8217;t make this some beautiful but fleeting one-night stand, designed merely to get my hopes up. Look, I&#8217;ve basically given up on the Capitals, and both\u00a0<em>Fargo<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Archer<\/em> are getting so silly these days I barely have anything to watch on TV anymore. Stay in it for my sake, Washington, will you, please?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you want winter to last just a little bit longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell me that was the real you last night, the you that can actually compete with the NBA&#8217;s better half (and for more than just the first quarter, please!). Don&#8217;t make this some beautiful but fleeting one-night stand, designed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1550\">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-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}