{"id":1682,"date":"2017-08-28T08:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T04:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2017-08-28T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T04:41:59","slug":"a-welcome-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"A welcome distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports, sweet sports, keeping me up two nights in a row, and now this work week looks hard. Well, given everything that&#8217;s going on in the world (and when <em>can&#8217;t <\/em>that phrase be said) I suppose it&#8217;s a welcome distraction. I&#8217;ve been lucky my whole life to have basically a series of useful distractions from war and poverty and disease and all that, and I am truly thankful.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s message of gratitude sponsored by sports, sweet sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports, sweet sports, keeping me up two nights in a row, and now this work week looks hard. Well, given everything that&#8217;s going on in the world (and when can&#8217;t that phrase be said) I suppose it&#8217;s a welcome distraction. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1682\">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-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","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=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}