{"id":2329,"date":"2019-04-22T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2019-04-22T04:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:14:12","slug":"this-article-i-actually-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"This article I actually read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My \u201clocal\u201d paper yesterday did me the favor of putting together my summer reading list.\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>printed a baseball-themed book review section, highlighting a dozen or so 2019 releases. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>The book I look forward to reading most is called\u00a0<em>Chumps to Champs<\/em>, an examination of the New York Yankees, the team that sucked in the late \u201880s and early \u201890s (when I fell in love with the team), then became perennial contenders. My students are always stunned to hear that the Yankees used to be terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now they\u2019ll believe me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My \u201clocal\u201d paper yesterday did me the favor of putting together my summer reading list.\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0printed a baseball-themed book review section, highlighting a dozen or so 2019 releases. Nice. The book I look forward to reading most is called\u00a0Chumps &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2329\">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-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}