{"id":2932,"date":"2020-10-12T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2020-10-12T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:08:42","slug":"l-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now\u00a0<em>that&#8217;s<\/em> how I expected the NBA Finals to go&#8230; none of that Miami-wins-a-game-somehow silliness. (Gotta put one more game on TV, right, L.A.?)<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, yesterday, I also witnessed the expected result when my local professional football team (that would be the &#8220;Washington football team&#8221;) came up woefully short against their counterparts from the aforementioned Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I fully expect to see L.A.&#8217;s contribution to the baseball world, the Dodgers (nee Trolley Dodgers of Brooklyn), give a Tinseltown-worthy performance in Game One of the NLCS.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, things are pretty much right with the world now.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now\u00a0that&#8217;s how I expected the NBA Finals to go&#8230; none of that Miami-wins-a-game-somehow silliness. (Gotta put one more game on TV, right, L.A.?) For better or worse, yesterday, I also witnessed the expected result when my local professional football team &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2932\">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-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}