{"id":3116,"date":"2021-03-10T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:15:50","slug":"the-island-is-the-place-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"The island is the place to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say it&#8217;s now the Brooklyn Nets, not the Lakers, who are NBA frontrunners this shortened season. With the addition of Blake Griffin they&#8217;ve now got a team of all-stars, and are poised to overtake the Sixers atop the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>A little farther out the LIE the New York Islanders sit atop their division as well. Is Long Island the new sports mecca?<\/p>\n<p>Short-lived reign, Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say it&#8217;s now the Brooklyn Nets, not the Lakers, who are NBA frontrunners this shortened season. With the addition of Blake Griffin they&#8217;ve now got a team of all-stars, and are poised to overtake the Sixers atop the Eastern &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3116\">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-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","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=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}