{"id":2711,"date":"2020-03-16T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:36:39","slug":"full-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Full stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 30 years on this date I have purchased a copy of<em> USA Today<\/em> to check out its &#8220;March Madness&#8221; preview. Sometimes it would be the only newspaper I purchased the whole year. (And yes, in recent years sometimes they have done it on <em>Tuesday<\/em> instead of Monday and I actually ended up buying it two days in a row, but you get the idea.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 I began taking a photo every year on this date of me and my son holding up a copy of the day&#8217;s paper. We&#8217;re usually smiling; this year we&#8217;re not. I took our 2020 photo last Friday, with the sports-page headline of <em>The Washington Post<\/em> : &#8220;Full stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Full stop indeed.<\/p>\n<p>#sad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 30 years on this date I have purchased a copy of USA Today to check out its &#8220;March Madness&#8221; preview. Sometimes it would be the only newspaper I purchased the whole year. (And yes, in recent years &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2711\">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-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","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=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}