{"id":2692,"date":"2020-02-26T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:33:54","slug":"if-you-live-long-enough-you-see-it-more-than-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"If you live long enough, you see it more than once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love seeing Goliath knocked down a peg.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama, the Patriots, cable TV.<\/p>\n<p>Duke basketball.<\/p>\n<p>I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest take down the #7 Blue Devils last night, not only for the moment itself but for the nostalgia it sparked in yours truly. It was a dozen years ago (can it be that long?) I saw Wake Forest take down\u00a0<em>#2<\/em> Duke on its home court, prompting the only storm-the-court frenzy I&#8217;ve ever been involved in personally.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, most of the players in last night&#8217;s game were six years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love seeing Goliath knocked down a peg. Alabama, the Patriots, cable TV. Duke basketball. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest take down the #7 Blue Devils last night, not only for the moment itself but &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2692\">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-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}