{"id":3293,"date":"2021-07-28T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2021-07-30T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T03:44:52","slug":"some-things-are-better-left-unsaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3293","title":{"rendered":"Some things are better left unsaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching the Olympics, of course, the past few days (which again is kind of like saying you enjoy breathing or are a fan of food and shelter). Less good has been watching the annoying interviews after each event.<\/p>\n<p><em>So, Olympic athlete, you spent your entire life preparing for an event and then you lost by a tenth of a second&#8230; how does that feel?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The restraint shown by the competitors in this moment is of Olympic proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching the Olympics, of course, the past few days (which again is kind of like saying you enjoy breathing or are a fan of food and shelter). Less good has been watching the annoying interviews after each event. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3293\">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-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","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=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}