{"id":3456,"date":"2021-12-06T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:39:01","slug":"were-number-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Number 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re searching for the Holy Grail there\u2019s no silver medal for second place.<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re trying to reach the College Football Playoff there\u2019s no prize for being five.<br \/>\nMy beloved Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have the unfortunate distinction this year of being fifth place in a four-team race for the national championship.<br \/>\nMy first thought was, no way Cincinnati should be in, I bet they didn\u2019t beat a ranked opponent all year!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, no, Cincinnati topped Notre Dame in October.<br \/>\nAnd the Irish didn\u2019t beat a ranked opponent all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re searching for the Holy Grail there\u2019s no silver medal for second place. When you\u2019re trying to reach the College Football Playoff there\u2019s no prize for being five. My beloved Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have the unfortunate distinction &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3456\">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-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}